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Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0) QUOTES

Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0) QUOTES

1 " We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

2 " The deep structure of the universe is pure consciousness. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

3 " In their clean white robes, with their white– gloved hands shielding their eyes against the glare, they looked like immaculate toy dolls saluting the rising sun. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

4 " Why must beliefs always seek to invade their victims, to fill them with fever, and then to infect yet others like a plague? Why "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

5 " As a germinated seed seeks its way out of the ground into the light of day, I longed to break free of the old thoughtways that stifled me and restrained my inspiration. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

6 " To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes, "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

7 " after a woman has reached a sort of final maturity, her soul has unfolded like a fireflower and no amount of time can extinguish the flame or attenuate the colors. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

8 " Do you hear the ticking, Mallory, my brave, foolish, young pilot? Time—it ticks, it runs, it twists, it dilates, shrinks, and kills, and one day for each of us, no matter what we do, it stops. Stops, do you hear me? "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

9 " And I, through the reflecting pools of his deep–set eyes—I saw a savage man I did not like. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

10 " Being human, they often confuse the World–soul’s intention with their most basic desires. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

11 " our quest for the secret of life was stupid and meaningless. There was no secret; there was only the crushing bondage of being, and finally when it was time to be no more, nothingness. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

12 " If there is no true creation then there is no true reality. If nothing is real, then man is not real; man in some fundamental sense does not exist. Reality is all a dream, and worse, it is less than a dream because even a dream must have a dreamer to dream it. To "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)

13 " You may think of God as the timeless, eternal universe of mathematics. "

― David Zindell , Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)