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Edmund Cooper Quotes

1926–1982 England

Edmund Cooper (April 30, 1926 – March 11, 1982) was an English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, and a children's book. These were published under his own name and several pen names.

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It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.

Seed of Light (1959)

There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.

The cloud walker (1973)

It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.

Seed of Light (1959)

But it is better to be destroyed on strange frontiers than to live in a prison of ignorance and fear.

Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)

For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.

Seed of Light (1959)

Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.

Five to Twelve (1968)

Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.

All Fools' Day (1966)

And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.

The Last Continent (1970)

In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.

The Overman Culture (1971)

A man must either fall or rise in adversity.

The cloud walker (1973)

It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.

A Far Sunset (1967)

The colour of the skin is less important than the spirit wich moves it.

The Last Continent (1970)

In some way the material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told, dissolving into nothingness like a vision.

The Overman Culture (1971)

Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

On earth there are frontiers, in the sky there are none.

The cloud walker (1973)

All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.

Seed of Light (1959)

Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality.

Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)

But some children have clearer vision than adults.

Prisonner of Fire (1974)

But no one can be immune to the laws of chance.

Transit (1964)

Attribution

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