quotes tagged as "scifi"

Join Goodreads to collect your favorite quotes!

Recommend and discuss books with your friends
Keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read
Form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes

(showing 1-12 of 13)

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi

3,214 people liked it

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: motivational, scifi

371 people liked it

"It's hard to be a bright light in a dim world."
— Gary Starta

tags: humor, paranormal, scifi

77 people liked it

""What does a mirror look at?""
— Frank Herbert (Chapterhouse: Dune)

tags: chapterhouse, dune, frank, herbert, mirror, scifi

8 people liked it

"Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God."
— Johnny Hart

tags: god, religion, science, science-fiction, scifi

8 people liked it

"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."
— Iris Murdoch

tags: commentary, scifi, social

5 people liked it

"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons)

tags: sci-fi, science-fiction, scifi

3 people liked it

"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."
— Seventh Doctor

tags: adventure, doctor, fantasy, life, scifi, who

2 people liked it

"The hoverlanes were murder."
— Troy Denning

tags: scifi, star_wars

2 people liked it

"You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you.

"
— Dr. Who

tags: dr-, scifi, who

1 person liked it

"It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten."
— Larry Niven (Scatterbrain)

tags: heinlein, reading, scifi

1 person liked it

"If you'll read'em I'll write'em"
— Robert Lee Thompson

tags: scifi

0 people liked it

all quotes
my quotes

quotes tagged as "scifi"

Join Goodreads to collect your favorite quotes!

popular tags