# Quote — Walter Moers, The City Of Dreaming Books

> In the end, because you become inured to anything you meet in vast numbers, I grew accustomed to the sight of these innumerable skeletons. I ceased to flinch whenever I rounded a bend in a tunnel and was confronted by a skeletal figure with its arm raised in salutation. There was even something comforting about this world of the dead, because the absence of life betokened the absence of danger. All that is evil stems from the living; the dead are a peaceable bunch.

- Author: [Walter Moers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers.md)
- Book: [The City Of Dreaming Books](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books.md)
- Page: 185
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books/in-the-end

## More from this book

> “No, literature isn’t eternal,” he cried. “It’s a thing of the moment. Even if you made books with pages of steel and diamond letters, they would some day crash into the sun and melt, together with our planet. Nothing is eternal, least of all in art. It doesn’t matter how long an author’s work continues to glimmer after his death. What matters is how brightly it burns while he’s still alive.”

p. 368 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books/no-literature-isnt.md)

> But his illness never attained the merciful degree of severity that would have entitled him to a spell in a lunatic asylum and absolve him from further work. It wasn’t quite severe enough for a lunatic; only for a writer.

p. 339 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books/but-his-illness.md)

> Many people may think it is insane of someone endowed with such a potential abundance of power to spend his life producing works of art which no one can see. Well, my own ideas of morality prescribe that only a lunatic would aspire to subordinate the fate of others to his own wishes. I leave it to a higher authority to decide which view is the right one.

p. 426 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books/many-people-may.md)