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Quotes from Endymion — Dan Simmons

1948–2026 United States

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Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.

Endymion (1996)

Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Endymion (1996)

The future is never written...only penciled in.

Endymion (1996)

I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.

Endymion (1996)

I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.

Endymion (1996)

Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.

Endymion (1996)

The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.

Endymion (1996)

One of the men in the boat—I could not remember which character—had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.

Endymion (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dan Simmons (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.