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 level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference. Dan Simmons More Quotes by Dan Simmons More Quotes From Dan Simmons It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. Dan Simmons survivalmaytalking There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls. Dan Simmons soulhumanitydream The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer Dan Simmons cancerrolesorder 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 that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing. Dan Simmons summerdreamspring Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter. Dan Simmons structurematterlove Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. Dan Simmons madpoetreality We are all eaters of souls. Dan Simmons soul 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 nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. Dan Simmons foamgreasemeat A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. Dan Simmons wasteselfway The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. Dan Simmons routesabsolutesignorance 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 the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. Dan Simmons painmistakesex Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about. Dan Simmons things-in-lifepaininteresting In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. Dan Simmons secondsdecisionmade 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 unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it. Dan Simmons faithlawsea It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. Dan Simmons exhaustedrelaxwriting The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip. Dan Simmons being-stronghumanitywish But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms. Dan Simmons sciencefictionthinking There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. Dan Simmons fullnesspainknowing Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening. Dan Simmons immortalitymusicalgenius 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 them to. Dan Simmons risingwaypast
