Skip to content

I, who hated the fat, smug, oily, stinking, ignorant, hypocritical, parasitical priests! And their unfeeling, merciless, cruel God!

— Philip José Farmer The Dark Design (1977)

Another quote →

More quotes by Philip José Farmer

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,
Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,
For daytime's vulture talons tear apart
The tender alcoves built by love at night.

Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions.

The Magic Labyrinth (1980)

Of course, I’m only indulging in mankind’s vice of trying to make a symbol out of coincidence.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

A miracle: a chance distribution of events, occurring one time in a billion.

The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)

All Philip José Farmer quotes →

Attribution

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