And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
We’re toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody’s ever been young like we are right at this moment.
Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be in want of a wife who can handle a great big--
You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.
My atheism, like that of , is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.
The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.
I don’t have to extend my hand to greet you. A wink can reach across the room. And a wink in a telescope can stretch across the universe.
As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.
Self-esteem...is there any greater force in the universe that can help you get things done in your life?
Happiness is feeling confident that the god of this universe is pleased with the things you say and do.
Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.
Here in your heart, deep in your soul, resides the universe’s collective wisdom, waiting for expression through your life’s experience.
That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
