Philip José Farmer quotes - page 2

Death, the Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Society, had arrived at last. Blackness. Nothingness. He did not even know that his heart had given out forever. Nothingness. Then his eyes opened. His heart was beating strongly. He was strong, very strong! All the pain of the gout in his feet, the agony in his liver, the torture in his heart, all were gone. It was so quiet he could hear the blood moving in his head. He was alone in a world of soundlessness. A bright light of equal intensity was everywhere. He could see, yet he did not understand what he was seeing. What were these things above, beside, below him? Where was he? (Philip José Farmer)
The world took a shape which he could grasp, though he could not comprehend it. Above him, on both sides, below him, as far as he could see, bodies floated. They were arranged in vertical and horizontal rows. The up-and-down ranks were separated by red rods, slender as broomsticks, one of which was twelve inches from the feet of the sleepers and the other twelve inches from their heads. Each body was spaced about six feet from the body above and below and on each side. The rods came up from an abyss without bottom and soared into an abyss without ceiling. That grayness into which the rods and the bodies, up and down, right and left, disappeared was neither the sky nor the earth. There was nothing in the distance except the lackluster of infinity. View quote
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Suddenly he was weeping. The tears were for the good things that had been or might have been, for the bad things that had been but should not have been. View quote
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Yesterday's monomaniac is tomorrow's messiah... View quote
Philip José Farmer
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. View quote
Philip José Farmer
Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half. View quote
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Drowned idols swirl like seeds in chaos' wine. Look, Job! Caught Beauty, held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing - the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. View quote
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Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light. View quote
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Miles above the Earth we know, Fancy's rocket roars. View quote
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We too. No wisdom to utter. You've beauty, flux, and terror To tell. So've I. View quote
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Oh, I'd reach beyond the comma of you To the invisible phrase, the dangling Omega! (Philip José Farmer)
Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions. Speak the word soul, and unbelievers will automatically become deaf to what follows. Those who believe in souls will always hear you through the mental constructs that they formed on Earth. Let us call this nonmatter twin the... ah... ka. View quote
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[Her] perfume was delicate and at the same time with the hint of an odor like a tiger in ambush. View quote
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The President looked old enough to have created the Big Bang. View quote
Philip José Farmer
[The house] looked like an enormous white box which was still not large enough to contain all the troubles and woes of the owners. View quote
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Quotes from the Riverworld series of novels and stories, about nearly all of humanity finding themselves resurrected on an alien world, for such reasons or purposes as remains unclear. View quote
Philip José Farmer
The only gold is love, A coin that we have minted from the light Of others who have cared for us on Earth And who have deposited in us the power That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars. View quote
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Unfortunately, not all can be permitted to possess immortality. Too many would make immortality miserable or hellish for the rest, and they would try to control others through their control of the resurrection machinery. View quote
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Beauty in this Iron Age must turn From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn. View quote
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Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act. View quote
Philip José Farmer
Eyes forward! Sing a paean to the light That God gives us to net the distant stars In eyes that once were blinded with black earth. (Philip José Farmer)
The little girl become a woman, dream-ridden Alice, had inspired the nonsense not really nonsense, and this in circuitous and spiralling fashion had inspired her to do what all others had failed to do, to save eighteen billion souls and the world. View quote
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The truth is that you can be immortal, relatively so, anyway. View quote
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We hope to breed a race of men whose power Dwells in hearts as open as all Space Itself, who ask for nothing but the light That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars Above will be below when man has Love. View quote
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Apparently, there was dissension even among those beings who we could account as gods. View quote
Philip José Farmer