Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.

Marshmallows for Breakfast

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Splendid

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Son of the Shadows

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Something Coming Through

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

The Theory of Clouds

Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife

Terra Incognita

In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

… the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next best time to plant a tree is now.

Pig's Foot

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

Pope Joan

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

Prodigy

I turn even more flustered when I remember that I have actually pistol-whipped him in the face before. Romantic.

Prodigy

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

Prodigy

Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

Trauma and Recovery

Know this much:regret nothing. Each part of your journey is essential to the whole. The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination. Ninetah,the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler

The Traveler

PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars.” “Ah!” Manannan’s expression lit with comprehension. “They are politicians?

Trapped

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. ("Ephemera")

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror