Edmund Cooper Quotes

“What is god but an extension of the ego - a sort of megalomania by proxy?”

The Overman Culture (1971)

“In some way the material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told, dissolving into nothingness like a vision.”

A Far Sunset (1967)

“For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.”

The Overman Culture (1971)

“The journey is what matters.”

Seed of Light (1959)

“How does one objectively define madness?”

The Tenth Planet (1973)

“Even you must appreciate that to destroy the personnality while preserving the body is simply another kind of death.”

Prisonner of Fire (1974)

Edmund Cooper Quotes about death

“There is no other god but life. Life is the only holy thing. And when that goes that is the death of God.”

Prisonner of Fire (1974)

Edmund Cooper book Transit

Transit (1964)

“All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life.”

“Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.”

Seed of Light (1959)

Edmund Cooper book Five to Twelve

Five to Twelve (1968)

Edmund Cooper Quotes about men

“There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.”

“It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.”

The cloud walker (1973)

“Men who are afraid live longer.”

Seed of Light (1959)

“Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.”

A Far Sunset (1967)

“The mad can make their own laws.”

All Fools' Day (1966)

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“Behind the apparent unreason there is reason.”

The Tenth Planet (1973)

“Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.”

The Overman Culture (1971)

“A man must either fall or rise in adversity.”

Kronk (1970)

Edmund Cooper Quotes

“Destiny knows no favorites.”

The cloud walker (1973)

“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”

Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)

“It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.”

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

“Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.”

Seed of Light (1959)

“The real struggle is between order and anarchy.”

The cloud walker (1973)

“Only ideals are dangerous.”

All Fools' Day (1966)

“He who expects little is rarely disappointed.”

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

“But it is better to be destroyed on strange frontiers than to live in a prison of ignorance and fear.”

Seed of Light (1959)

“Life itself has become ludicrous.”

Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)

“When one flowers dies, another is born.”

All Fools' Day (1966)

“There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.”

The Tenth Planet (1973)

“For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.”

The Overman Culture (1971)

“On earth there are frontiers, in the sky there are none.”

Seed of Light (1959)

“But in adversity, intelligence alone cannot sustain hope. Ultimately, hope can be sustained only by finding purpose in adversity, by imposing a pattern on the fortuitous disasters of existence. Human beings, if force to it, will compromise their intelligence to preserve their hope.”

The cloud walker (1973)

“All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.”

Seed of Light (1959)

“Mankind has never been renowned for accepting logical solutions to its most serious problems. As a rule, the degre of logicality of solutions seemed to vary inversely with the urgency or seriousness of the problems.”

Seed of Light (1959)

Edmund Cooper book Five to Twelve

Five to Twelve (1968)

“Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.”

“In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary.”

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

“Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality.”

All Fools' Day (1966)

“But then history was made by fools.”

Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)

“And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.”

All Fools' Day (1966)

“I believe our only hope of immortality lies in our actions, in what we do to and for others, and in our children.”

The Last Continent (1970)

“And he who loves last loves loudest.”

The Tenth Planet (1973)

“The colour of the skin is less important than the spirit wich moves it.”

Kronk (1970)

“But some children have clearer vision than adults.”

The Last Continent (1970)

“There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.”

Prisonner of Fire (1974)

“To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.”

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

“Without mankind machines are nothing.”

A Far Sunset (1967)

“Thus, ultimately, there never could be an absolute end; just as there never could have been an absolute beginning. There could only be a continuous unfolding.”

The Overman Culture (1971)

“But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love.”

Seed of Light (1959)

“There is no acceptable true image.”

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

Edmund Cooper book Transit

Transit (1964)

“But no one can be immune to the laws of chance.”

Edmund Cooper book Transit

Transit (1964)

“In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.”

“Courage has many faces.”

The Overman Culture (1971)