All Walter M. Miller, Jr. Quotes
- Bless me Father, I ate a lizard. Ate
- One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person. Embarrassed
- Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right… Always Right
- The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for… All
- Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the… Adoringly
- I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity. Devious
- That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. All
- It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men. Blood
- The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others. Advice
- Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all… All
- To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and… Bases
- Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum. Ask
- ....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear. Bear
- ....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. Abuse
- ... for no change comes calmly over the world... Calmly
- What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's… All
- Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has… Awhile
- Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events. Assertion
- Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history. Applied
- When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary. All
- But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well. Bestow
- Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in… America