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“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.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“Men who are afraid live longer.”

Edmund Cooper book A Far Sunset

A Far Sunset (1967)

“When one flowers dies, another is born.”

The Tenth Planet (1973)

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

The Overman Culture (1971)

“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.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

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

The cloud walker (1973)

“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.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

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.”

Edmund Cooper book Five to Twelve

Five to Twelve (1968)

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

The Uncertain Midnight (1958)

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

Edmund Cooper book All Fools' Day

All Fools' Day (1966)

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

Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)

“But then history was made by fools.”

Edmund Cooper book All Fools' Day

All Fools' Day (1966)

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

The Last Continent (1970)

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

Prisonner of Fire (1974)

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

The cloud walker (1973)

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

The Tenth Planet (1973)

“And he who loves last loves loudest.”

Kronk (1970)

“How does one objectively define madness?”

Prisonner of Fire (1974)

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

The Last Continent (1970)