Quote

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

Dan Simmons

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dan Simmons
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: April 4
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Peoria
Illinois
Lovemaking
Described
Absurd
Seems

More quotes by Dan Simmons

Image
Its hard to die. Harder to live
Dan Simmons
Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
Dan Simmons
Image
I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
Dan Simmons
Image
It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
Dan Simmons
Image
The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
Dan Simmons
Image
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
Dan Simmons
Image
Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.
Dan Simmons
Image
The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
Dan Simmons
Image
The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.
Dan Simmons
Image
Life doesn't retreat.
Dan Simmons
Image
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Dan Simmons
Image
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.
Dan Simmons
Image
The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.
Dan Simmons
Image
I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's All You Need Is Love anymore without wincing.
Dan Simmons
Image
Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.
Dan Simmons
Image
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.
Dan Simmons
Image
Power: a currency that never went out of style.
Dan Simmons
Image
Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.
Dan Simmons
Image
Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?
Dan Simmons
Image
Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion
Dan Simmons