--- title: "105 Robert Charles Wilson Quotes - Famous Science fiction writer (The harvest)" description: "Robert Charles Wilson quotes on fear, consciousness, and loneliness." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b101/author-robert-charles-wilson-4900.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b101/author-robert-charles-wilson-4900.jpg) # Robert Charles Wilson (1953) Science Fiction Writer Canada **105** quotes in **479** categories A woman steps back into a brightly lit world after years of avoidance, a scene that shows how confronting fear can be painful. Robert Charles Wilson also writes about consciousness as an evolutionary tool and the loneliness that fills the universe. He questions when loyalty turns into martyrdom. Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Robert Charles Wilson is a science fiction writer from Canada, best known for *The harvest*. ## Quick Facts About Robert Charles Wilson Born December 15, 1953 Nationality Canada Profession Science Fiction Writer Notable works The harvest Known for Spin ## About Robert Charles Wilson Robert Charles Wilson is an American‑Canadian author who writes science‑fiction. ## Awards & Honors Hugo Award for Best Novel Theodore Sturgeon Award John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel Philip K. Dick Award Geffen Award Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel ## Quotes by Robert Charles Wilson > [“Even a dry well may freshen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/even-a-dry-well-may-freshen/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Freshen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/freshen-67799/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb3/robert-charles-wilson-4900_freshen_even-a-dry-well-may-freshen-583588_583588.png) > [Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/everybody-falls-and-we-all-land-somewhere/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Fall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfd/robert-charles-wilson-4900_fall_everybody-falls-and-we-all-land-somewher_2558069.png) > [ “\[N\]ot my name, my secret idea of myself.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/n-ot-my-name-my-secret-idea-of-myself/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Idea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/idea/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/robert-charles-wilson-4900_idea_n-ot-my-name-my-secret-idea-of-myself-10_1009354.png) > [To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/to-capture-the-pawn-threaten-the-queen/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Capture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capture/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/445/robert-charles-wilson-4900_capture_to-capture-the-pawn-threaten-the-queen-7_750635.png) > [“We are as ephemeral as rain drops.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/we-are-as-ephemeral-as-rain-drops/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Drops](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drops/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34a/robert-charles-wilson-4900_drops_we-are-as-ephemeral-as-rain-drops-172648_1726481.png) > [When does loyalty become martyrdom?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/when-does-loyalty-become-martyrdom/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Doe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bef/robert-charles-wilson-4900_doe_when-does-loyalty-become-martyrdom-12111_121115.png) > [Ecstasy hates company.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/ecstasy-hates-company/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Company](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/company/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b13/robert-charles-wilson-4900_company_ecstasy-hates-company-1439589_1439589.png) > [We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/we-re-as-ephemeral-as-raindrops-we-all-fall-and-we-all-land-somewhere/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Ephemeral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ephemeral/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a7/robert-charles-wilson-4900_ephemeral_we-re-as-ephemeral-as-raindrops-we-all-f_2892582.png) > [“Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/vanished-children-i-can-t-think-where-i-lost-them/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70e/robert-charles-wilson-4900_children_vanished-children-i-can-t-think-where-i_2827881.png) > [“...slept too long. And I don’t much like the world I woke up to.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/slept-too-long-and-i-don-t-much-like-the-world-i-woke-up-to/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Slept](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/slept/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/robert-charles-wilson-4900_slept_slept-too-long-and-i-don-t-much-like-the_1687032.png) > [“You don’t have to be nice all the time. Get angry once in a while. You’re entitled.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/you-don-t-have-to-be-nice-all-the-time-get-angry-once-in-a-while-you/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Angry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/angry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ef/robert-charles-wilson-4900_angry_you-don-t-have-to-be-nice-all-the-time-g_1216098.png) > [Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/do-you-want-to-tell-the-truth-or-do-you-want-to-tell-a-story/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Stories](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/stories/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f3/robert-charles-wilson-4900_stories_do-you-want-to-tell-the-truth-or-do-you_2611685.png) > [We'll do what life always does defy expectations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/we-ll-do-what-life-always-does-defy-expectations/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Defy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b3/robert-charles-wilson-4900_defy_we-ll-do-what-life-always-does-defy-expe_3133668.png) > [There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/there-s-no-point-living-if-you-can-t-at-least-occasionally-live/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Ifs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d63/robert-charles-wilson-4900_ifs_there-s-no-point-living-if-you-can-t-at_1531667.png) > [This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/this-would-have-been-less-annoying-had-it-been-untrue/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Annoying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/annoying/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f57/robert-charles-wilson-4900_annoying_this-would-have-been-less-annoying-had-i_969019.png) > [“I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-wanted-to-sell-tomorrow-to-the-highest-bidder-and-settle-down/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Wanted Sell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/wanted-sell-239840/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/923/robert-charles-wilson-4900_wanted-sell_i-wanted-to-sell-tomorrow-to-the-highest_2790148.png) > [Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/evolution-can-t-be-predicted-julian-used-to-tell-me-it-s-a/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Aim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aim/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/324/robert-charles-wilson-4900_aim_evolution-can-t-be-predicted-julian-used_970985.png) > [“What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/what-a-person-runs-from-and-what-a-person-runs-to-aren-t-always-as/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Race](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/race/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6f/robert-charles-wilson-4900_race_what-a-person-runs-from-and-what-a-perso_951529.png) > [Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/is-there-any-evidence-to-the-contrary-i-don-t-need-certainty-in-order/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Certainty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/certainty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/381/robert-charles-wilson-4900_certainty_is-there-any-evidence-to-the-contrary-i_1565227.png) > [Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/some-pious-men-may-find-this-truth-unorthodox-and-bitter-but-nature/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Bitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bitter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03c/robert-charles-wilson-4900_bitter_some-pious-men-may-find-this-truth-unort_2711604.jpg) > [“Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/violence-is-the-great-attractor-of-human-history-dr-iverson-a-force/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crime/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd9/robert-charles-wilson-4900_crime_violence-is-the-great-attractor-of-human_874457.png) > [Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/some-things-are-taken-away-from-you-some-you-leave-behind-and-some/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Away from you](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/away-from-you/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/robert-charles-wilson-4900_away-from-you_some-things-are-taken-away-from-you-some_2820346.png) > [Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/ah-books-ziegler-smiling-came-up-behind-me-they-bob-like-corks-on-an/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Behinds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behinds/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d8/robert-charles-wilson-4900_behinds_ah-books-ziegler-smiling-came-up-behind_862558.png) > [I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-would-confront-the-thieves-i-thought-and-the-self-evident-justice/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Application](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/application/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/robert-charles-wilson-4900_application_i-would-confront-the-thieves-i-thought-a_808954.png) > [“I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-was-east-of-skepticism-and-north-of-faith-with-an-unsettled-compass/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Doubt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doubt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/robert-charles-wilson-4900_doubt_i-was-east-of-skepticism-and-north-of-fa_2785525.png) > [Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/along-with-a-dozen-other-students-i-had-dissected-a-human-cadaver-and/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Cadaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cadaver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/robert-charles-wilson-4900_cadaver_along-with-a-dozen-other-students-i-had_2391752.png) > [“And don’t you dare say you love me, because I know that’s not true. You don’t know the difference between being in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/and-don-t-you-dare-say-you-love-me-because-i-know-that-s-not-true-you/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Like love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-love/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/765/robert-charles-wilson-4900_like-love_and-don-t-you-dare-say-you-love-me-becau_969419.jpg) > [Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/since-deacon-hollingshead-s-arrival-in-town-last-july-the-dominion/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Arrivals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrivals/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fb/robert-charles-wilson-4900_arrivals_since-deacon-hollingshead-s-arrival-in-t_598390.jpg) > [We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/we-live-in-an-enlightened-age-however-an-age-that-has-learned-to-see/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/893/robert-charles-wilson-4900_age_we-live-in-an-enlightened-age-however-an_1266721.png) > [“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-appreciated-her-bluntness-maybe-it-came-with-her-sudden-sobriety/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Alcoholism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alcoholism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ac/robert-charles-wilson-4900_alcoholism_i-appreciated-her-bluntness-maybe-it-cam_244806.png) > [I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-believed-there-were-no-hypotheticals-in-the-sense-of-consciously/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Acting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acting/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/robert-charles-wilson-4900_acting_i-believed-there-were-no-hypotheticals-i_716437.png) > [“I want a better Bible, Adam. I want a Bible in which the Fruit of Knowledge contains the Seeds of Wisdom, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/i-want-a-better-bible-adam-i-want-a-bible-in-which-the-fruit-of/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Bible](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bible/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/768/robert-charles-wilson-4900_bible_i-want-a-better-bible-adam-i-want-a-bibl_1054422.png) > [The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/the-dutch-at-close-proximity-looked-much-like-americans-apart-from/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Bullets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bullets/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/848/robert-charles-wilson-4900_bullets_the-dutch-at-close-proximity-looked-much_2577489.jpg) > [“Were they our betters? No. They are people like us, Aunt Abbie, no better than some and no worse than others. From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/were-they-our-betters-no-they-are-people-like-us-aunt-abbie-no-better/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Paradise on earth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/paradise-on-earth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/316/robert-charles-wilson-4900_paradise-on-earth_were-they-our-betters-no-they-are-people_2225422.png) > [To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/to-fire-a-bullet-into-the-heart-or-brains-of-one-s-fellow-man-even-a/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Barrels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barrels/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/robert-charles-wilson-4900_barrels_to-fire-a-bullet-into-the-heart-or-brain_808217.png) > [“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/certainly-it-s-a-rare-glimpse-into-the-lives-of-the-secular-ancients/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Ancients](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancients/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be2/robert-charles-wilson-4900_ancients_certainly-it-s-a-rare-glimpse-into-the-l_405338.png) > [“We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/we-contrast-the-urban-and-the-natural-but-that-s-a-contemporary-myth/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Natural](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/natural/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a9/robert-charles-wilson-4900_natural_we-contrast-the-urban-and-the-natural-bu_590111.jpg) > [“The territory through which we passed had been overbuilt in the days over the Secular Ancients, but only a few traces of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/the-territory-through-which-we-passed-had-been-overbuilt-in-the-days/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Every step](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/every-step/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/robert-charles-wilson-4900_every-step_the-territory-through-which-we-passed-ha_2779807.png) > [From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/from-this-new-point-of-view-the-universe-i-had-inhabited-became-an/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Alternatives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alternatives/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fee/robert-charles-wilson-4900_alternatives_from-this-new-point-of-view-the-universe_2422372.jpg) > [“Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-charles-wilson/superstition-is-what-we-call-the-miracles-we-don-t-approve-of/) [Robert Charles Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-charles-wilson/) [Hypocrisy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hypocrisy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3c/robert-charles-wilson-4900_hypocrisy_superstition-is-what-we-call-the-miracle_603614.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": 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