„Even if they had been real gods, what did it matter? What was it to me? Here I was still, right where I was born a thousand or so years before, in the middle of the human condition—namely, rubbish and pain. If the gods were real, their only relationship with us was to use us to play their games. Screw them all.“
Origine: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 8 (p. 174)
Roger Zelazny1
scrittore e autore di fantascienza statunitense 1937 - 1995Citazioni simili
— Alvin C. York United States Army Medal of Honor recipient 1887 - 1964
Account of 8 October 1918.
Diary of Alvin York
— Pearl S. Buck American writer 1892 - 1973
Origine: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 208
Contesto: The wild winds had been sown and the whirlwinds were gathering... and I was reaping what I had not sown... None of us could escape the history of the centuries before any of us had been born, and with which we had nothing to do. We had not, I think, ever committed even a mild unkindness against a Chinese, and certainly we had devoted ourselves to justice for them, we had taken sides against our own race again and again for their sakes, sensitive always to injustices which others had committed and were still committing. But nothing mattered today, neither the kindness nor the cruelty. We were in hiding for our lives because we were white.
— Michael Swanwick, libro The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Origine: The Iron Dragon's Daughter (1993), Chapter 22 (p. 399)
— George Raymond Richard Martin American writer, screenwriter and television producer 1948
Discussing the influence of real-life faiths on his work and its religious systems, Authors@Google (August 2011)
Contesto: I think worship of death is an interesting basis for religion, because after all death is the one universal. It doesn't seem to matter what gods you pray to. We all die, in the real world and in fantasy worlds, and if there was some religion where you did not die I suspect that would be, that god would become very popular. They all promise us eternal life, but whatever.
— Steven Curtis Chapman American Christian music singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist 1962
Playing Pastor Michael Curtis in the Lifetime movie "Christmas Child," 2003 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346750/
— Birju Maharaj Indian dancer 1938
In [Reena Shah, Movement in Stills: The Dance and Life of Kumudini Lakhia, http://books.google.com/books?id=sSKU2DROHMgC&pg=PA117, January 2006, Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd, 978-81-88204-42-7, 117–]
„God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us.“
— Coventry Patmore English poet 1823 - 1896
Magna Moralia XXII, p. 172.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)
„God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.“
— Paulo Coelho, libro Sulla sponda del fiume Piedra mi sono seduta e ho pianto
Origine: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
„Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.“
— David Levithan, libro Love Is the Higher Law
Origine: Love Is the Higher Law
— Tatian Syrian writer 120 - 180
Ante-Nicene Christian Library: v. 3 p. 34
Address to the Greeks
— H.P. Lovecraft American author 1890 - 1937
Letter to Jennie K. Plaiser (8 July 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 564
Non-Fiction, Letters
— Georgy Zhukov Marshal of the Soviet Union 1896 - 1974
To Joseph Stalin. Quoted in "Field Marshal Von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head" - Page 164 - by Marcel Stein, Gwyneth Fairbank - History - 2007
— Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943
Origine: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
— Charlie Parker American jazz saxophonist and composer 1920 - 1955
c. 1939 quoted in Masters of Jazz
