First contact Quote by David Brin

“We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.”

— Sidney Poitier

“All the systems which explain so precisely why the world is as it is and why it can never be otherwise, have always called…

— Ernst Jünger

“The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy…

— John Updike

“If you see yourself as a vital part of a holistic universe then any battle is ultimately against yourself.”

— Danny Scheinmann

“Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.”

— William Lashner

“For whoever doesn’t overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days. The”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death – every child is aware of them, blazing with…

— Gene Wolfe

“We cannot control the uncontrollable or see the unseeable, but we can choose to embrace peace of mind in defiance of all that is…

— Danielle Luz Matias

“For quite some time now, like the foetus inside a womb, a terrible knowledge had been ripening within me and filling my soul with…

— Tadeusz Borowski

“Thought by thought, breath into utterance, weightless or gravitational...though our experiences are limited by time, our words and their immortal existence are without expiration...”

— Tracey Bond

“Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round…

— C.S. Lewis

“The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin