Dan Simmons Quotes
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
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I don’t think that I want to make any wager if it means dealing with a Church that has grown so corrupt that it makes obedience and submission the price of its saving the life of someone’s child.
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
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Those who ignore history’s lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them...they may be forced to die by them.
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'I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis,' he said in low, tight tones. 'To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell.'
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Crudely effective, but wildly inefficient.
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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.
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
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Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end-when all else is dust-loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
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Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
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I learned that poets aren’t God, but if there is a God...or anything approaching a God...he’s a poet. And a failed one at that.
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
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As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.
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It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.
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If one is to observe, M. Endymion, one must be in the proper place to observe.
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'Sometimes,' said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, 'dreams are all that separate us from the machines.'
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'I ignore religions,' said Brawne Lamia. 'I do not succumb to them.'
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It struck me that his dialect was actually the nondialect of someone who has learned a new language perfectly but without the lazy shortcuts of someone born to it.