--- title: "4 Dance floor Quotes By Dan Simmons" description: "4 Dance floor quotes by Dan Simmons. Plus more from Dan Simmons and more Dance floor sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c9/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-p_242351.jpg" --- > [“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-perceptions-honing-our-empathy/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c9/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-p_242351.jpg) > [“In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/in-the-end-it-doesn-t-matter-a-damn-bit-we-thought-we-were-special/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65f/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_in-the-end-it-doesn-t-matter-a-damn-bit_788632.jpg) > [“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-perceptions-honing-our-empathy-2/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f5/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-p_1578234.jpg) > [“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/to-be-a-poet-i-realized-a-true-poet-was-to-become-the-avatar-of-2/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79d/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_to-be-a-poet-i-realized-a-true-poet-was_2142924.jpg) ## Other authors on Dance floor ## More by Dan Simmons > [“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/that-s-all-now-either-leave-us-alone-or-join-us-as-a-father-rather/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/the-song-of-kali-is-with-us-it-has-been-with-us-for-a-very-long-time/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [“In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/in-the-end-thought-sol-past-logic-and-hope-it-is-dreams-and-the-love/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/after-seven-centuries-of-existence-and-at-least-four-centuries-where/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [Context is to data what water is to a dolphin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/context-is-to-data-what-water-is-to-a-dolphin/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/pain-is-an-interesting-and-off-putting-thing-few-if-any-things-in/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/luckily-even-as-a-young-man-not-yet-become-himself-john-bridgens-had/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/to-be-a-poet-i-realized-a-true-poet-was-to-become-the-avatar-of/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/those-who-ignore-history-s-lessons-in-the-ultimate-folly-of-war-are/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/the-day-before-the-queen-s-ball-father-had-a-visitor-a-very-young/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/you-ve-probably-heard-about-the-theory-of-steam-engine-time-that-even/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/there-will-be-no-further-misuse-of-this-channel-you-are-disturbing/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [“I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/i-know-the-fucking-bible-and-there-ain-t-no-fucking-book-of-leviathan/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/i-loved-you-backward-and-forward-in-time-i-loved-you-beyond/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) > [ “Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. \[...\] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/men-who-read-a-lot-have-a-more-sensitive-disposition-added-fowler-i/) [Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-simmons/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dance-floor/dan-simmons/#itemlist", "name": "4 Dance floor Quotes By Dan Simmons", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and then trying to make a minuet out of all that chaotic hurt.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Simmons" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-simmons/we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-perceptions-honing-our-empathy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c9/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-p_242351.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c9/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-p_242351.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c9/dan-simmons-968_dance-floor_we-thought-we-were-special-opening-our-p_242351.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared…” — Dan Simmons", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In the end, it doesn’t matter a damn bit. 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