Philip Ridley Quotes & Sayings

Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all. — Philip Ridley

When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares. — Philip Ridley

Slit my skull open. Know what it'll be like? Like slitting open the guts of a great white shark. Stuff'll come out like you wouldn't fucking believe. — Philip Ridley

When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them. — Philip Ridley

I love you so much I could burst into flames. — Philip Ridley

We're like . . . like dinosaurs bedazzled by all the pretty lights in the sky, too fucking stupid to realise it's a comet getting closer and closer. — Philip Ridley

We live our lives between magic and panic. — Philip Ridley

And I thought, I am in love. For the first time I am in love. And loved. Someone loves me. And I love them. And within me things clicked and whirled like the insides of some gigantic clock, cog against wheel, spring against spiral, tick against tock, and I knew that nothing would ever be the same again. I had shown someone what I really was. I had shown someone my truth, my secret. Out there, beyond the walls of the Castle, there was a boy who had seen inside my chrysalis. And I would never be safe again. — Philip Ridley

We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir! — Philip Ridley

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called. — Philip Ridley

No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End. — Philip Ridley

I heard a baby cry. And this blood-splattered thing was put in my arms. My child. And, at that moment, it was like a gigantic plug appeared and - POW! - I was plugged into humanity in a way I'd never been before. Never could be. I was part of all mothers and all births from the beginning of time. I was a woman in a mud hut in Africa, in an igloo in the Arctic, a wigwam in America, a cave, a skyscraper, a spaceship. I was part of a flow and that flow was blood - — Philip Ridley