The Road to the Sea Quotes

“It seemed unfair that this should have happened in his time, after all these centuries of rest. But men cannot bargain with Fate, and choose peace or adventure as they wish.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Road to the Sea

“This was the pause when history held its breath, the hushed moment between the lightning flash and the advent of the first concussion. Soon the thunder would be rolling round the world; and soon there might be no world at all, while he and his people would be homeless exiles among the stars.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Road to the Sea

“In that moment it seemed to Brant that from his hilltop he was looking over Time rather than Space: and in his ears there whispered the soughing of the winds of eternity as they sweep into the past.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Road to the Sea

“The future is built on the rubbish of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Road to the Sea

“Shastar had awed and overwhelmed him, yet its tragedy had left him curiously unmoved.
But this struck straight at his heart and spoke in a language he could understand; and as it did so, the last vestiges of his condescension
toward the past were scattered like leaves before a gale.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, The Road to the Sea