68 quotes
He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense—as it often is.
Wild Seed (1980)
The Destiny of Earthseed
Is to take root among the stars.
Parable of the Sower (1993)
We give our dead
To the orchards
And the groves.
We give our dead
To life.
Parable of the Talents (1998)
I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everybody had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.
Imago (1989)
Lilith might be strong enough now to handle troublemakers herself, but she did not want to do that unless she had to. It would not help the people become a community, and if they could not unite, nothing else they did would matter.
Dawn (1987)
They can create something beautiful, useful, even something worthless. But they create. They don't destroy.
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change.
Parable of the Sower (1993)
I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.
Patternmaster (1976)
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
Parable of the Sower (1993)
“It’s a crucifix,” Wright told me when I showed it to him. “It must have been worn by one of the people who lived here. Or maybe the arsonist lost it.” He gave a humorless smile. “You never know who’s liable to turn out to be religious.”
Fledgling (2005)
"When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing." (p.275)
Fledgling (2005)
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people.
Life was treasure. The only treasure.
Imago (1989)
"There're are worse things than being dead." (p253)
Kindred (1979)
I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
Parable of the Sower (1993)
When vision fails
Direction is lost.
When direction is lost
Purpose may be forgotten.
When purpose if forgotten
Emotion rules alone.
When emotion rules alone,
Destruction...destruction.
Parable of the Talents (1998)
A lot of people seem to believe in a big-daddy-God or a big-cop-God or a big-king-God. They believe in a kind of superperson. A few believe God is another word for nature. And nature turns out to mean just about anything they happen not to understand or feel in control of.
Parable of the Sower (1993)
He didn’t look all right to me. “Has anyone gone for the doctor?”
“Marse Tom don’t hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.”
Kindred (1979)
Most vampires, I’ve discovered, are men, for some reason. I guess it’s because Dracula, people are kind of feeding off that.
with Democracy Now (2005)
People here in the neighborhood are saying she had no business going to Mars, anyway. All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can’t afford water, food, or shelter
Parable of the Sower (1993)