“The Twilight Zone” quotes

“No moral, no message, no prophetic tract, just a simple statement of fact: for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“We know that a dream can be real, but what if reality is only a dream? We exist, of course, but how? In what way? As we believe, as flesh and blood human beings, or are we simply playing parts in someone else’s feverish, complicated nightmare?”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“To live life fully, one should hear the melody the world makes. Pity those who stumble through their years without ever hearing the song. The greatest gift we can bestow on those we love is to help them hear it.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“They say a dream takes only a second or so, and yet in that second a man can live a lifetime.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“It isn't enough for a sole voice of reason to exist. In this time of uncertainty, we are so sure that villains lurk around every corner that we will create them ourselves if we can't find them — for while fear may keep us vigilant, it's also fear that tears us apart.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“The most common ailment of all men, the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.”
Rod Serling - Narrator

“I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”
Rod Serling - Narrator