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Quotes from Sea Without a Shore — Sean Russell

born 1952

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The only thing of which we can be sure—time passes—everything else is vanity.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

To wait for life is the pathway to death.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Man, he suspected, had a particular genius for complicating things, for creating social hurdles that one must leap or be thought lacking.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Tristam stood and raised his glass. “May life be kind, and friends loyal. Ventures profitable, children plentiful, and age like a slow turning of the leaves in autumn; grand, beautiful and tranquil.”

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Their superstitions will allow them to believe things without much critical thought.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

If men were only as wise as they are clever...

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Men who were used to subordinating others to their wills were invariably surprised by rebellion—as though this imaginary prison they created was, in fact, real.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Experience taught him that the future was uncertain and one could prepare for it only by learning indifference to disappointment and loss.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Soldiers, Your Highness. Men trained not to think for themselves.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Not only had he become adept at predicting the behavior of others, but he could predict his own behavior just as well. He no longer surprised himself. It was one of the saddest things about aging.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

Attribution

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