Scifi Quotes

“I didn’t know what question to ask first. GERI’s announcement surprised me. My friend from outer space had become a property developer.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"
And there was light --”
― Isaac Asimov, The Last Question

“I know the world is an evil, capricious place and that men are basically bad and so, knowing that, I am always pleased to find some atom of goodness and only bored to see something evil.”
― L. Ron Hubbard, Fear

“It all had a beginning in the original cosmic explosion, whatever that was, and it'll all have an end when all the stars run down. Some run down faster than others. Hell, the giants won't last a hundred million years. The sun will last ten billion years and maybe the dwarfs will last two hundred billion for all the good they are. But just give us a trillion years and everything will be dark. Entropy has to increase to maximum, that's all. (Lupov)”
― Isaac Asimov, The Last Question

“Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,” I say, smiling up at the disembodied voice, my hands punching into my pockets, to show off the muscles of my arms. Am I flirting with my operating system? I think I’m flirting with my operating system. That voice.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“I'm sorry, Grandfather," Alia said. "You've met the Atreides gom jabber.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“…y el mundo dejó de funcionar. Todo… Todo se fue al garete, o todo se salvó. Según como se mire.”
― Jordi Balaguer, Hanami

“If the stars must someday die, at least some could yet be built.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Last Question

“He talked a great deal about Truth, also, for he was, as he said, "cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization."

It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever) hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once.

The most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness . . .

Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Of those two things, you have either one, or the other.

Not both.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Cannibal Penguin FTW!!”
― Lauren Beukes, Zoo City

“You earthlings! You never know what you want. If you'd stop trying to hold on to everything, you'd be a lot happier.”
― Bruce Coville, My Teacher Glows in the Dark

“As the cloth suffocating her freedom aged,
with pieces of it burnt and torn by her rage,
Truth managed to win the war of the decades,
and sprinted out in wild ire.”
― Eman Nabil, The Result Of A Change

“Yet, I do sense hope when I see the little flames rising up and listen to the music of the children jumping on the dirty water puddles and laughing as if their life depended on it. Their parents watch them with watery eyes and a smile that hide their misery.”
― Eman Nabil, The Result Of A Change

“Sure you are. You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in
the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got
under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through,
he would just get under another one. (Lupov)”
― Isaac Asimov, The Last Question

“The stars are dying. The original star is dead. (Zee Prime)”
― Isaac Asimov, The Last Question

“Emotion brings dissonance with the purpose.”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“The Death Tree grew from Orus’ blood-orange sand, its branches yellow-white - the hue of rotting bone.”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“Great Sun. I thank you, fiery master, in your heavenly domain, for your warmth and light, and for your protection against the dark evil of the desert. We are servants to your will.”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“Now I may safely plot my course, without the pressure of oncoming digestion…”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“Two more feathers drifted to the ground. “I’m not a common crow, you prick! I can speak to you!”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“I fear no insult or threat of violence,” the Hierarch went on, “Let us speak like intelligent beings.”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“The knowledge stored in my mind is a collection amassed over millions of ages. Every form and function of every type of being is logged. There is no life form breathing that can dispute my reasoning or claim to supersede my position. I will retain the garrison on this Biycron-3 for as long as I see fit to do so. To quell your discontent, I will inform you that it is in your best interest. Anything more would be a slap to your consciousness far beyond any hope of understanding.”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“Munin was spit out in a fleshy, watery mess. Smack! He flattened on the concrete - a dropped, half-baked tart.”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“It was super scummy but I liked it.”
― Kathe Koja, Dark Factory

“La violencia es el último recurso del incopetente”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The wolf appeared from nothing beside Isaiah. The lack of light and night vision of the Anubis didn’t strip away its gold coloration. Stars glittered in its coat, and nebulas filled its blue eyes.”
― Adrienne Wilder, Anubis

“I’m not brave. I’m paying penance. There’s a difference.” -Dr. Reese Dante”
― Adrienne Wilder, Anubis

“Ashes. Is this all that there is to a life?”
― Steve Holloway

“First survive, then tell the truth.”
― Amie Kaufman