Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 1 (p. 8)
Works

Our Lady of Darkness
Fritz Leiber
Conjure Wife
Fritz LeiberPoor Superman
Fritz LeiberHeroes and Horrors
Fritz LeiberSwords Against Death
Fritz LeiberFamous Fritz Leiber Quotes
“There are vampires and vampires, and the ones that suck blood aren’t the worst.”
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Source: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 240)
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 10 (p. 105)
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 13 (p. 126)
Fritz Leiber Quotes about life
“A Pail of Air” (p. 20); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1951
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 17 (p. 95)
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 27 (p. 166)
“A Bit of the Dark World” (pp. 261-262); originally published in Fantastic, February 1962
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 241)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Fritz Leiber Quotes about thinking
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 19 (p. 207)
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 1 (p. 15)
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 18 (p. 98)
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 10 (p. 56)
Fritz Leiber: Trending quotes
“What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science?”
Source: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 26).
Context: What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.
“They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.”
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 37).
Context: They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”.
“The Dreams of Albert Moreland” (p. 182); originally published in The Acolyte, #10, Spring 1945
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Fritz Leiber Quotes
“It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.”
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 26).
Source: Bazaar of the Bizarre (pp. 233-234) note: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)
“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”
“All of us.”
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 30 (p. 181)
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 16 (p. 89)
“I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!”
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 3.
“There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.”
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 33).
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 42 (p. 340).
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 34 (p. 270).
“The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.”
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).
“Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a God, her name is Mystery.”
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 8 (p. 43)
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 14 (p. 145)
“Work and pray,
Live on hay.
You’ll get pie
In the sky
When you die—
It’s a lie!”
“Bread Overhead” (p. 121); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1958; alluding to the song The Preacher and the Slave.
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
“There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.”
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 33 (p. 259).
“The 64-Square Madhouse” (p. 74); originally published in If, May 1962
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
“Diary in the Snow” (p. 203); originally published in the first edition of Night's Black Agents (1947)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Short Fiction, Catch that Zeppelin! (1975)
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 40 (p. 312).
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 10 (p. 106)
Short Fiction, Bazaar of the Bizarre (1963)
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 19 (p. 195)
“Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.”
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 16 (p. 113).
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 14 (p. 144)
“Time Fighter” (p. 67); originally published in Fantastic Universe, March 1957
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)
“A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.”
Source: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 3 (p. 39).
Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1951, under the title "Appointment in Tomorrow".
Short Fiction, Poor Superman (1951)
“The Hill and the Hole” (p. 165); originally published in Unknown Worlds, August 1942
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
“For that matter, where did I get off being critical of anyone?”
The Big Time (1958)
Source: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 10 (p. 106).
Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 15 (p. 83)
“Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.”
Source: Conjure Wife (1953), Chapter 20 (p. 209).
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 12 (p. 117)
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 42 (pp. 336-337).
Short Fiction, Catch that Zeppelin! (1975)
Short Fiction, Bazaar of the Bizarre (1963)
Source: Bazaar of the Bizarre (p. 234) note: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)
“A Bit of the Dark World” (p. 263)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 14 (pp. 145-146)
Source: Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 54)
“That’s what everybody’s been looking for since the Year One—something a little more than sex.”
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (p. 230)
Short Fiction, Night's Black Agents (1947)
Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 21 (p. 158).
“Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.”
The Big Time (1958)
The Seven Black Priests (pp. 175-176)
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)