The Palace of Eternity Quotes

“It was the old trouble with cultural first contacts—no matter what object the explorer pointed at he risked being given the word for finger.”
― Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity

“His eyes had a heavy, nostalgic look, as if peering into the past, or into a future which was never going to exist.”
― Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity

“There was the great enigma—that the brevity of a man’s life did not drive him into continuous swarming activity. The ability to surrender gladly to sleep, the death of each day’s life, was one of the best intimations of immortality that Hal could conceive. But, if man’s spirit was immortal, what was the purpose of the transient glimmer of physical existence?”
― Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity

“As always when a personal encounter put him under stress, a whirling confusion scattered his powers of thought, organic valves opened and the skin of his cheeks began to heat up.”
― Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity

“Running down the hill is good, a warm voice said, because your strides are long and easy, and entropy is a following wind, speeding you to dissolution, which is merely rest under a different name.”
― Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity

“Tavernor felt his elation increase—he was on the brink of understanding something important—and then, because the emotion was a product of his individuality, the nebulous contact was lost, with an accelerating yearning slide into normalcy. There was a moment of disappointment, but even that vanished into something less than a memory.”
― Bob Shaw, The Palace of Eternity