More Than Human Quotes

“Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone."
"Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone."
He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love."
"He says only if you love yourself.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“The only thumbnail you’ll get from me is this: no one knows what’s really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. Nothing it was designed to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Love’s a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Evelyn said, "What's it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?"
Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. "Love," she said at length. She swallowed. "It's a madness. It's bad.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“no one knows what’s really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“guess sometimes the world’s too much to live with and a body sort of has to turn away from it to rest.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“I got to my feet and looked around the room. Just a room, only the one door. I tiptoed towards it. When I passed Janie, she opened her eyes.

‘What’s the matter?’ she whispered.

‘None of your business,’ I told her. I went to the door as if I didn’t care, but I watched her. She didn’t do anything. The door was as solid tight closed as when I’d tried it before.

I went back to Janie. She just looked up at me. She wasn’t scared. I told her, ‘I got to go to the john.'

’‘Oh,’ she said. ‘Why’n’t you say so?’

'Suddenly I grunted and grabbed my guts. The feeling I had I can’t begin to talk about. I acted as if it was a pain, but it wasn’t. It was like nothing else that ever happened to me before. Something went splop on the snow outside.'

‘Okay,’ Janie said. ‘Go on back to bed.'

‘But I got to – ’

'You got to what?'

’Nothing.’ It was true. I didn’t have to go no place.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he’s ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“He picked up three long fresh stalks of timothy and braided them together. He upended the scythe and thrust the handle deep enough into the soft earth so it would stand upright. He tied the braided grass to one of the grips and slipped the whetstone into the loops so it would stay. Then he walked off into the woods.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“He had an animal's maturity, in which the play of kittens and puppies no longer has a function. His spectrum lay between terror and contentment.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful. The air was heavy and sweet; it lay upon lips until they parted, pressed them until they smiled, entered boldly to beat in the throat like a second heart. It was air with a puzzle to it, for it was still and full of the colors of dreams, all motionless; yet it had a hurry to it. The stillness and the hurry were alive and laced together and how could that be? That was the puzzle.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Un sentiment de vénération montait en lui. Il savait que ce sentiment n'était autre que ce qu'il avait toujours été pour le reste de l'humanité, c'est-à-dire le respect de soi-même.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Les plus qu'humains

“- Et vous... nous... sommes-nous responsables des progrès et des réussites de l'humanité ?
- Mais nous les partageons... Nous sommes cette humanité.
Cette humanité qui fait de son mieux pour se tuer.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Les plus qu'humains

“Si Bébé, c'est-à-dire le cœur, le moi, le tabernacle de ce nouvel être, si Bébé pouvait être remplacé, alors l'Homo Gestalt etait immortel.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Les plus qu'humains

“Qui suis-je, moi, pour tirer des conclusions positives au sujet de la moralité et des codes qui puissent servir à l'humanité entière ?”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Les plus qu'humains

“Si jamais quelqu'un était capable de retracer exactement ce qu'il voit et ressent en faisant seulement dix mètres dans la rue, nous obtiendrions une image si déformée, si obscure, tellement subjective qu'il est difficile de s'en faire une idée, même vague. Et personne ne regarde jamais autour de soi avec attention, jusqu'au moment où il vient ici.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Les plus qu'humains

“Je ne vous donnerai qu'une seule formule : Personne ne sait de quoi vous souffrez, si ce n'est vous-même. Personne d'autre que vous ne peut trouver remède à votre mal. Personne, en dehors de vous, ne peut se rendre compte si le remède agit.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Les plus qu'humains

“Although”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“To form a question was to have an answer.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Wrong. Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist... the idea that such as he could belong to anything.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“He is credited with inventing the story of Spock’s sex life, as well as the famous Vulcan greeting, “Live long and prosper,” and (with Leonard Nimoy) its accompanying hand signal.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell, that drained and left him weak. And he himself was the object of it. For hadn’t he known? Hadn’t he taken a name for himself, knowing that the name was a crystallization of all he had ever been and done? All he had ever been and done was alone. Why should he have let himself feel any other way?”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human

“They stayed close, one of her hands on his bare shoulder, and the currents of their inner selves surged between them.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human