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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act … Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

" Notebook N http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 36 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=25&itemID=CUL-DAR126.-&viewtype=text quoted in [Darwin's Religious Odyssey, 2002, William E., Phipps, Trinity Press International, 9781563383847, 32, http://books.google.com/books?id=0TA81BTW3dIC&pg=PA32] also quoted in On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection (1996) edited by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn, page 81 Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements Source: Notebooks

Law, Sun

“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: The Tent

God, Hell

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer "universal health care."”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Source: Knowledge And Decisions

People, Health, Thinking

“In this universe there might grow roses which sing.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

Singing

“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”

Clifford D. Simak book Way Station

Source: Way Station

Death, Star, Distant

“Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.”

Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author

World, History, Knowledge, Time

“I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

Waiting

“What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.”

Frank W. Abagnale (1948) American security consultant, former confidence trickster, check forger, impostor, and escape artist

Source: Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

Learning

“Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.”

Philip Yancey (1949) American writer

Hope

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”

Don DeLillo (1936) American novelist, playwright and essayist

Source: White Noise: Text and Criticism

Nature

“To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.”

Truman G. Madsen (1926–2009) American educator

Source: Eternal Man

Intelligence, Question

“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Sinclair Lewis book Elmer Gantry

Source: Elmer Gantry (1927)

Star, Boy, Light, Personality

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

Anatole France (1844–1924) French writer

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

For Wife, Relationship, Truth

“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Truth

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.”

Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer

Love, Faith, Dogs

“Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Animal Man, Vol. 2: Origin of the Species

Dreams

“Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.”

Craig Clevenger Dermaphoria

Source: Dermaphoria

Angels

“Inside you there are universes. You contain multitudes.”

James Scott Bell

How to Make a Living As a Writer

“When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Tear, Parting, Personality

“the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

World

“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Source: The Book of Imaginary Beings

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 1: Puget Sound and British Columbia 1910s

Beauty, Star, Appearance, Singing

“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

God, Art, Sex

“There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe…. The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

The Old King, p. 22.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)

People, Truth, World, Soul

“You create your own universe as you go along.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Besides, you're a cat. It's your nature to think you're the center of the universe.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Cats, Nature, Thinking

“We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.”

Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor

Source: Me of Little Faith

Dance

“is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Every day you play with the light of the universe.”

Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Light

“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”

Lisa See book Peony in Love

Source: Peony in Love

“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Remember, Nick, there are only two people in the universe I care for…and you’re not one of them. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

People

“I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

Optimism

“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Variant: We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love, Way

“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Variant: But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
Source: East of Eden

Love, God, Soul

“In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.”

Benjamin Zander (1939) English conductor

Source: The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

Life, World

“Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: Guilty

Life, Laughter

“The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

Life, Light

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

Doris Lessing book Martha Quest

Martha Quest (1952), Part III, ch. 2

Law, Fools, Learning, Parting

“You know you're putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

“Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.”

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

Source: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact

God, Faith, Way, Gratitude

“As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Secret, Personality

“There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Source: Nausea, The Wall and Other Stories

Books

“Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Courage

“It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

Sex

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

Eoin Colfer book And Another Thing...

Source: And Another Thing...

Love, Life, Reading, Happiness

“People are wonderful one at a time. Each one of them has an entire hologram of the universe somewhere within them.”

George Carlin book Last Words

Source: Last Words

People, Time

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

Stella Gibbons book Cold Comfort Farm

Source: Cold Comfort Farm

Education, Feeling, Personality

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 218

“Humor is a universal lanuage.”

Joel Goodman American film composer, music business entrepreneur and educator.

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Confidence

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Beauty, Literature, Parting

“The mystery of the universe is not time but size.”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Variant: The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.
Source: The Gunslinger

Time

“The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.”

Lisa Unger (1970) American author

Truth, Courage

“Sometimes the Universe smiled. Mostly she kicked me in the face, stomped on my ribs once I fell down, and laughed at my pain, but once in a while she smiled.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Pain, Smile

“… in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”

Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive

Source: Dead and Alive

Imagination

“I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Fear, Reality

“It doesn’t matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Beauty of Darkness

“Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.”

Julio Cortázar book Hopscotch

Source: Hopscotch

Imagination, Sleep, Change, Chance

“All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.”

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist

Mammonart - an Essay in Economic Interpretation Ch. 2 Who Owns the Artists? (1925)

Art

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Dreams, Help, Personality

“Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art”

Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Ancient Rome

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Art, Thinking, Time, Parting

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Life, Soul

“what if a dawn of a doom of a dream
bites this universe in two,
peels forever out of it's grave
and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XX
Source: 100 Selected Poems

Dreams

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Star

“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Pleasure

“So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Star

“There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say goodbye.”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

Source: Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts

Sun

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Truth

“Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust your angels to catch your wish and bring it to you in a delightfully surprising way.”

Doreen Virtue (1958) American writer

Way, Angels

“If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms.”

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Source: Alternating Current (1967)
Context: If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

“I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex.”

Jim Butcher book Grave Peril

Source: Grave Peril

Hate, Jerk

“And so the Universe ended.”

Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Help

“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Love, Feeling, Sense, Personality

“You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as….. cultivated.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

Source: Contact

Thinking

“In the infinity of life where I am,
All is perfect, whole and complete,
I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself
As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.”

Louise L. Hay book You Can Heal Your Life

Source: You Can Heal Your Life

Life, Perfection

“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Soul, Star

“Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tree

“Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?”

Margaret Maron book Bootlegger's Daughter

Source: Bootlegger's Daughter

Thinking, Time

“I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Law, Understanding

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

Deep, love, Wise, Cute

“It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Pain, Truth, Guy

“Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it towards some overwhelming question”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

Smile, Question

“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

Time

“The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

“To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

“That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Game, Sport

“Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Soul

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”

David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.

Heart

“My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

God, Sense

“The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Way, History

“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 132
Variant transcription from "Death of a Genius" in Life Magazine: "I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar."
Context: About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church. As long as I can remember, I have resented mass indoctrination. I do not believe in the fear of life, in the fear of death, in blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

God, Law, Thinking, Evil

“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Books

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