David Zindell Quotes

Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?

The memory of all things is in all things, Danlo remembered. Nothing is ever truly lost. "The true Elder Eddas," he said "are universal memories. The One memory is just the memory of the universe itself. The way the universe evolves in conscioiusness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more, nothing less. We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being." "Now you are speaking mystically again, Little Fellow." "About some things there is no other way to speak."

That was the true terror of war, that often one had to accept danger and simply wait to live or die.

What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.

Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out? (p88)

You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.

I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

In time, the heart of each religion grows hard and dies. And so seekers of the godly will always turn to new prophets and new ways, never realizing that, ultimately, all religions separate man from God.