Neverness Quotes

“We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“The deep structure of the universe is pure consciousness.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“Do you hear the ticking, Mallory, my brave, foolish, young pilot? Time—it ticks, it runs, it twists, it dilates, shrinks, and kills, and one day for each of us, no matter what we do, it stops. Stops, do you hear me?”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“But, as the Timekeeper would say, if we permitted fones people would forever be foning each other with their most immediate and frivolous thoughts. They would make appointments to meet each other at a certain place and time, and they would demand the use of timepieces, and of private sleds to carry them at whim about the City. The streets would fill with explosive, noisy machines and other noisome things, because once the technology beast was uncaged, people would want squawking private radios and private sense boxes and a host of other things. When I was a novice, I had often sniggered at this domino theory of technology, but later, when I had seen Tria and Gehenna and other hellish planets which chose not to limit their technology, I decided that in this one matter the Timekeeper’s edicts were justified.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“I love, pale one, your lifted eyebrows bridging Twin darknesses of flowing depth. But however deep they are, they carry me Another way than that of death.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“In their clean white robes, with their white– gloved hands shielding their eyes against the glare, they looked like immaculate toy dolls saluting the rising sun.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“And I, through the reflecting pools of his deep–set eyes—I saw a savage man I did not like.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“after a woman has reached a sort of final maturity, her soul has unfolded like a fireflower and no amount of time can extinguish the flame or attenuate the colors.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“Why must beliefs always seek to invade their victims, to fill them with fever, and then to infect yet others like a plague? Why”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“our quest for the secret of life was stupid and meaningless. There was no secret; there was only the crushing bondage of being, and finally when it was time to be no more, nothingness.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“Being human, they often confuse the World–soul’s intention with their most basic desires.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“You may think of God as the timeless, eternal universe of mathematics.”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“If there is no true creation then there is no true reality. If nothing is real, then man is not real; man in some fundamental sense does not exist. Reality is all a dream, and worse, it is less than a dream because even a dream must have a dreamer to dream it. To”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes,”
― David Zindell, Neverness

“As a germinated seed seeks its way out of the ground into the light of day, I longed to break free of the old thoughtways that stifled me and restrained my inspiration.”
― David Zindell, Neverness