Ozymandias Quotes
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![Ikkyu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1270943269i/150277._UX200_CR0,52,200,200_.jpg)
“Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self.”
―
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning -- already gone --
thus should one regard one's self.”
―
![Alan Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1304944713i/3961._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
![Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212686605i/45882._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
― Ozymandias
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
― Ozymandias
![Alan Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1304944713i/3961._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and their will are strong enough. I have studied science, art, religion and a hundred different philosophies. Anyone could do as much. By applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possible to accomplish almost anything. Possible for an 'ordinary person.' There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
![Jana Oliver](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1331212507i/4105961._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Ozymandias controls not only the dead, but the living. He works the dark magics, and it is said he knows the paths between the worlds and walks them without fear. He wields the-"
"Stop! In English, okay?""
"In English?" she asked, throwing the empty wineglass into the picnic basket. Riley nodded.
"You're in serious shit.”
― Forsaken
"Stop! In English, okay?""
"In English?" she asked, throwing the empty wineglass into the picnic basket. Riley nodded.
"You're in serious shit.”
― Forsaken
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
― The lord of the meeting rivers: Devotional poems of Basavaṇṇa
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.”
― The lord of the meeting rivers: Devotional poems of Basavaṇṇa
![Henry N. Beard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1332011992i/181576._UY200_CR43,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Abyssinias
"I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: A huge four-footed limestone form
Sits in the desert, sinking in the sand.
Its whiskered face, though marred by wind and storm,
Still flaunts the dainty ears, the collar band
And feline traits the sculptor well portrayed:
The bearing of a born aristocrat,
The stubborn will no mortal can dissuade.
And on its base, in long-dead alphabets,
These words are set: "Reward for missing cat!
His name is Abyssinias, pet of pets;
I, Ozymandias, will a fortune pay
For his return. he heard me speak of vets --
O foolish King! And so he ran away.”
― Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse
"I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: A huge four-footed limestone form
Sits in the desert, sinking in the sand.
Its whiskered face, though marred by wind and storm,
Still flaunts the dainty ears, the collar band
And feline traits the sculptor well portrayed:
The bearing of a born aristocrat,
The stubborn will no mortal can dissuade.
And on its base, in long-dead alphabets,
These words are set: "Reward for missing cat!
His name is Abyssinias, pet of pets;
I, Ozymandias, will a fortune pay
For his return. he heard me speak of vets --
O foolish King! And so he ran away.”
― Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse
![Chuck Palahniuk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1391203076i/2546._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“How everything you ever love will reject you or die.
Everything you ever create will be thrown away.
Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.
I am Ozymandias, king of kings.”
― Fight Club
Everything you ever create will be thrown away.
Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.
I am Ozymandias, king of kings.”
― Fight Club
![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Prophet may you be!
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
when time is old and hath forgot itself,
when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
and blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
and mighty states characterless are grated
to dusty nothing, yet let memory,
from false to false, among false maids in love,
upbraid my falsehood!”
― Troilus and Cressida
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
when time is old and hath forgot itself,
when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
and blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
and mighty states characterless are grated
to dusty nothing, yet let memory,
from false to false, among false maids in love,
upbraid my falsehood!”
― Troilus and Cressida
![Hanshan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1542716246i/3456711._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“I spur my horse past the ruined city;
the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts:
ancient battlements, high and low;
old grave mounds, great and small.
Where the shadow of a single tumbleweed trembles
and the voice of the great trees clings forever,
I sigh over all these common bones --
No roll of the immortals bears their names.”
―
the ruined city, that wakes the traveler's thoughts:
ancient battlements, high and low;
old grave mounds, great and small.
Where the shadow of a single tumbleweed trembles
and the voice of the great trees clings forever,
I sigh over all these common bones --
No roll of the immortals bears their names.”
―
![Alan Moore](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1304944713i/3961._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“Rorschach: You know we can't let you do that
Adrian Veidt: Do? Do what Rorschach?
I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.”
― Watchmen
Adrian Veidt: Do? Do what Rorschach?
I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.”
― Watchmen
![James S.A. Corey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1573162332i/4192148._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Individuals build empires because they want their names to echo through time. They build massive constructs of stone and steel so that their descendants will remember the people who created the world that they only live in. There were buildings on Earth that were thousands of years old, sometimes the only remaining evidence of empires that thought they would last forever. Hubris, the professor had called it. When people build, they are trying to make an aspiration physical. When they die, their intentions are buried with them. All that’s left is the building.
[Ozymandias syndrome, anyone? Ed.]”
― Persepolis Rising
[Ozymandias syndrome, anyone? Ed.]”
― Persepolis Rising
![Byron Rizzo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1698967814i/20034802._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“The human in the long run is always momentary.”
― Polypticon, Part I: The Joint Political-Informatic Effort Project
― Polypticon, Part I: The Joint Political-Informatic Effort Project
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