The Forge of God Quotes

“We've been sitting in our tree chirping like foolish birds for over a century now, wondering why no other birds answered. The galactic skies are full of hawks, that's why. Planetisms that don't know enough to keep quiet, get eaten.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“The child, ravaged by wolves, falls quiet in the forest, and the long darkness is filled with an undisturbed silence.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“There once was an infant lost in the woods, crying its heart out, wondering why no one answered, drawing down the wolves”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“From horizon to horizon the sky was filled with stars to within a few degrees of a fresh sliver of moon, a tiny thing lost in the yawn of night.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“The stars behind the glowing, swelling Earth suddenly filled with menace; he imagined them as the glints of wolves’ eyes in an infinite night-bound forest.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“I Saw Eternity the other night, he quoted, and not remembering the rest, concluded aloud with, “And it gave me quite a fright …”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“He had had a dream he couldn't remember clearly now. His mind shuffled palm leaves over the sand to hide the tracks of the subconscious at play.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“The death of a world is judgment of its inadequacy. Death removes the unnecessary and the false.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Desert and Death Valley were the Mecca and Al Medina”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“God, a superior intelligence, sculpts us all, finds us wanting, and sends our material back into the forge to be reshaped. That thing out there. The Furnace. That’s the forge of God. That’s what we’re up against. Might be up against.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Smart man to admit he’s an idiot,”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“No intelligent beings did things without motives.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Nothing was ever truly lost, if you only had access to all the eyes and senses in the universe, as he sometimes imagined God did. God himself had no eyes; He made eyes and put living things in charge of them, that He might witness the majesty of creation from an objective viewpoint.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Much of official Washington had seemed to come to a standstill. With the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the White House in open conflict now, such petty considerations as budgets had to wait.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“I’ve seen one kind of stupid, and another. We all bump into each other every day of our lives, by guess and by golly, and we render our opinions whether we know anything or not, and if anybody catches us out we lie … Ah, shit on it.” He shook his head. “I’m just feeling uncommonly sour today.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“He looked at his frayed sports coat and his worn-out running shoes, decided he was easily ten years behind the times and thousands of dollars short in refurbishing his wardrobe, and sighed as he entered the elevator.”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Living things see only the surface, can’t exist in the depths. Life is painted on the surface of the real. Death is the great unexplored volume. Death rises from the inaccessible, depth and death sounding so much alike … There”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. He”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God

“Marty knew about rituals. “That means we’re supposed to do something a certain way so we won’t feel guilty,” he said. “You got it,” Harry said. Marty”
― Greg Bear, The Forge of God