In the Ocean of Night Quotes

“Cynic’ is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“it’s not love that makes the world go round, it’s inertia,”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“he had never understood why it was better to kill plants than animals.”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“Very carefully he thought about nothing.”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“The physical laws are but the bars of a cage.”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“women who never passed a lamppost without touching it; men who balanced always on the ball of the left foot while urinating; outfielders who had to take a skip before throwing the ball into home plate. Fellow neurotics all; nerves skittering on a fine high wire.”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“But we are damned. Compared to you.” “By duration? Eight hundred thousand of your years— so much as I have counted—are still not enough. Your time is short and vivid, colored. Mine…I scream, sometimes, in this night.” “Good God.” He paused. The voice had shifted to a deeper bass and now seemed to echo in the cabin. “I would like to have those years, whatever you say. Mortality—” “Is a spice. A valued one.” “Still—” “You are not damned.”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“Overall,” Nigel drawled, “I think I would prefer opium as the religion of the masses.”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“annular”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night

“Look, it’s not love that makes the world go round, it’s inertia,”
― Gregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night