“Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I hope you had fun, I hope you had a nice, nice time being happy, Ender. It might be the last time… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Still, it’s better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The future happiness of the human race depends on good people who want to live at peace with their neighbors, and who… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Quara's need was and is so great that a person like me could be swallowed up in it a dozen times over.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Will we be extinguished? What difference does it make then, the ones of us who had plans, what does it matter the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
