Quotes from book

Neverness

“"All living things are afraid to die."
"No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."”

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

“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”

“Do you want to know the secret of life? Bardo will tell you the secret of life: it's not the amount of time we have, despite what I've just said. No it's not quantity and it's not even quality. It's variety.”

“For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down.”

“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.”

“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”

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

“Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.”

“Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.”

“The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods.”

“The secret of life is more life.”

“All living things are afraid to die.”