"And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they wonâ€™t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until theyâ€™re old enough to bear it and when they learn theyâ€™ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed"

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Stars Quotes #Children Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.”

Source : Song: Give Me One Rreason, Album: New Beginning, 1995
“But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression”
“So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial. And yet the content of short stories tends to be very much "nighttime" content.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.”

Source : Sharon Shinn (2016). “Archangel”, p.178, Hachette UK
“I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.”
“As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.”
“O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.175
“Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.”

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