All Dan Simmons Quotes
- To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in… Absolute
- We are all eaters of souls. All
- Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. Beings
- ... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live. All
- In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in… All
- The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. Absolute
- The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects… Buried
- In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. Decision
- His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life. Daily
- I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by… Beings
- Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion Been
- Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of… Bend
- In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold… Added
- You have to live to really know things, my love Funny
- There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. Calmness
- Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher… Been
- Mobs have passions, not brains. Brain
- Its hard to die. Harder to live Die
- Context is to data what water is to a dolphin Context
- I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. Backward
- I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread… Accented
- The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything… Almost Staggering
- But it's not just a game of finding literary references. Finding