The Complete Stories, Vol. 1 Quotes

“I suppose there's no way of putting the mushroom cloud back into that nice, shiny uranium sphere.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

“We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we have never known what to do with ourselves on a rainy Sunday.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

“Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'
-- "The Last Trump”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

“They couldn't have dropped the bomb for all the Galaxy. If they could have, they
would have been large-primate themselves in their manner of thinking, and there are worse things than merely the end of
everything.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

“The Dantean conceptions of Inferno were childish and unworthy of the divine imagination: fire and torture. Boredom is much more subtle. The inner torture of a mind unable to escape itself in any way, condemned to fester in its own exuding mental pus for all time, is much more fitting.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Stories, Vol. 1