Richard Matheson: Quotes about the world

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“That which you believe becomes your world.”

Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come

Source: What Dreams May Come

“Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.”

Richard Matheson

Introduction to The Path (1999), based on ideas presented in Thinking and Destiny (1946) by Harold W. Percival, p. 12
Context: Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.
This quest for enlightenment must begin now.
It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.

“It's only when we're alive and in this world that we have the chance to progress. From the state of the world today, we haven't made much progress.”

Richard Matheson

The New York Times interview (1994)
Context: To me, I don't even think of life after death. To me, life after death and reincarnation are just slices of the pie. Life is a huge wheel and it goes around and around, and life after death is just a segment of that. It comes down to spiritual growth. I think that we keep coming back until we learn what we need to learn, until we get it right.
I think we've all lived hundreds, maybe thousands of times. That which you think becomes your world. It's only when we're alive and in this world that we have the chance to progress. From the state of the world today, we haven't made much progress.

“When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?”

Richard Matheson

Source: What Dreams May Come: A Novel

“Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.”

Richard Matheson book A Stir of Echoes

Source: A Stir of Echoes

“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.”

Richard Matheson book I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 8

“George Romero filmed an homage to the book, and he called it Night of the Living Dead. Homage means I can make the picture and I don't have to pay you for your book. As a teen-ager I saw the movie "Dracula," and it occurred to me that if one vampire was scary, a whole world populated by vampires would be really scary.”

Richard Matheson

On his novel I Am Legend, and the inspiration for it.
The New York Times interview (1994)

“Sometimes he had indulged in daydreams about finding someone. More often, though, he had tried to adjust to what he sincerely believed was the inevitable — that he was actually the only one left in the world. At least in as much of the world as he could ever hope to know.”

Richard Matheson book I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 13