I Am Legend Quotes

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“In a world of monotonous horror
there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“How
long did it take for a past to die?”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“To his complete astonishment, he later found himself offering up a stumbling prayer that the dog would be protected. It was a moment in which he felt a desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations. But, even praying, he felt a twinge of self-reproach, and knew he might start mocking his own prayer at any second.
Somehow, though, he managed to ignore his iconoclastic self and went on praying anyway. Because he wanted the dog, because he needed the dog.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Everything seemed to flood over him then. It was as though he’d been the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, refusing to let the sea of reason in.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of change. The way things shaped up, he would live out his life with no more than he already had. And how many years was that? Thirty, maybe forty if he didn’t drink himself to death. The thought of forty more years of living as he was made him shudder”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood?
He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.
Makes a good excuse, doesn’t it, Neville? Oh, shut up.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her?
His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Patience, he told himself. Get yourself at least one virtue, anyway.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“He brushed his teeth carefully and used dental floss. He tried to take good care of his teeth because he was his own dentist now. Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why don’t you stop pouring alcohol into yourself? he thought. Why don’t you shut the hell up? he thought.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Again he shook his head. The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“It’s horrible," she said.

He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror” had become obsolete. A surfeiting of terror made terror a cliché. To Robert Neville the situation merely existed as natural fact. It had no adjectives.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“There was no sound but that of his shoes and the now senseless singing of birds. Once I thought they sang because everything was right with the world, Robert Neville thought. I know now I was wrong. They sing because they’re feeble minded.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away.
Why? Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Se estrecha el círculo. Un nuevo terror nacido de la muerte, una nueva superstición que invade la fortaleza del tiempo. Soy leyenda.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician?”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“The silence of the library was complete save for the thudding of his shoes as he walked along the second-floor hallway. Outside, there were birds sometimes and, even lacking that, there seemed to be a sort of sound outside. Inexplicable, perhaps, but it never seemed deathly still in the open as it did inside a building.
Especially here in this giant, gray-stoned building that housed the literature of a world's dead.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross? The”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Morality fell with society”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, now, search your soul, lovie – is the vampire so bad?”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“The last man in the world was irretrievably stuck with his delusions.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend