144 quotes
For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.
The Long Way Home (1955)
Man’s duty in this life, he thought, is to choose the lesser evil.
The People of the Wind (1973)
“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”
The Corridors of Time (1965)
Time is the bridge that always burns behind us.
Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.
The Broken Sword (1954)
Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.
The Broken Sword (1954)
What else is life but always bidding farewell?
Do you think maybe I want power for myself? That’s for fools who want to command other fools.
The Long Way Home (1955)
He’d seen too often how little of the universe is designed for man to neglect any safety measure.
The Star Fox (1965)
We can hardly expect conventional respectability of a person whose goal in life is enlightenment.
Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
The Corridors of Time (1965)
Your trouble is, the Old Faith reinforces every wish to kill that war has roused in you.
The People of the Wind (1973)
Something as biologically fundamental as death ought to be in the very fabric of evolution virtually from the beginning.
A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
Ghetto (1954)
Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.
The Broken Sword (1954)
A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.
There Will Be Time (1972)
I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.
The Enemy Stars (1959)
Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.
The Broken Sword (1954)
Absolute proof of absolute knowledge is impossible.
Nothing in excess, including self-denial.