Orson Scott Card: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”

“I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.”

“The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.”

“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.”

“Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.”

“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”

“This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.”

“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”

“If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.”

“because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”

“Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.”

“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”

“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”

“there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.”

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

“Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?”

“Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.”

“We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said.

Ender stopped. "Not from them.”