David MitchellAutumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.371Philosophy
David MitchellOne's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.362Reading
David MitchellI believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.373Death
David MitchellOnce any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. ✨ Cloud Atlas: A Novel.351Reading
David MitchellI lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People. ✨ David Mitchell (2008). Cloud At… ▶363HumanityReading
David MitchellHate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.375Thought
David MitchellBy each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. ✨ Fictional character: Sonmi-451. Cloud Atlas, www.imdb.com. 2012.375HopeTime
David MitchellIt's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind. ✨ David Mitchell (2012). Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel, p.365, Random House Group375ReadingTruth
David MitchellAct', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?331HopeTime
David MitchellEva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day.375Death
David MitchellIf only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of… ▶364HumanityReadingReflection
David MitchellIf war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.353Truth
David MitchellFaith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. ✨ David Mitchell (2012). Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel, p.80, Random House Group<… ▶342HopeReading
David MitchellStrip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste … ▶331LovePoliticsReading
David MitchellAs many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny sw… ▶342Truth
David MitchellTo enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot d… ▶365Reading
David MitchellPeople are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.… ▶322HumanityReading
David Mitchellclocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all. ✨ David Mitchell (2012). Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel, p.176, Random House Group366Reading
David MitchellThe weak are meat the strong do eat. ✨ David Mitchell (2012). Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel, p.501, Random House Group333Reading
David MitchellThe song instantly insisted it'd never existed.377Philosophy
David MitchellI wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. ✨ David Mitchell (2012). Cloud Atlas (Enhance… ▶378PoliticsReading
David MitchellOh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. ✨ David Mitchell (2012). Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in… ▶378ReadingTime
David Mitchellover 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.301Thought
David MitchellReality is the page. Life is the word. ✨ Number9Dream. Book by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. 2001.312LifeReadingTruth
David MitchellThe learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low. ✨ Cloud Atlas: A Novel.367ReadingThoughtTruth
David MitchellFor white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, … ▶367Death
David MitchellThe her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me. ✨ David Mitchell (2007). Ghostwritten, p.54, Vintage302Reading
David Mitchell…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean. ✨ David Mitche… ▶335Truth
David MitchellProbably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.313Sadness
David MitchellTrees're always a relief, after people. ✨ David Mitchell (2008). Black Swan Green, p.14, Hachette UK379Humanity
