Skip to content

“Gold,” says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.

— Dan Simmons The Fall of Hyperion (1990)

Another quote →

More quotes by Dan Simmons

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

The Fall of Hyperion (1990)

The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.

The Rise of Endymion (1997)

Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorizes as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

The Fall of Hyperion (1990)

If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.

The Rise of Endymion (1997)

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.”

Hyperion (1989)

All Dan Simmons quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Dan Simmons (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.