Orson Scott Card quotes - page 2

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet. (Orson Scott Card)

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Orson Scott Card

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

Orson Scott Card

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.

Orson Scott Card

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

Orson Scott Card

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Orson Scott Card

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Orson Scott Card

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?

Orson Scott Card

I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy.

Orson Scott Card

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

Orson Scott Card

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger. (Orson Scott Card)

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

Orson Scott Card

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Orson Scott Card

Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.

Orson Scott Card

Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

Orson Scott Card

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

Orson Scott Card

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

Orson Scott Card

The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

Orson Scott Card

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

Orson Scott Card

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

Orson Scott Card

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. (Orson Scott Card)

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Orson Scott Card

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Orson Scott Card

When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.

Orson Scott Card

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