Quote

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

Orson Scott Card

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Orson Scott Card
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: August 24
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Richland
Washington
Brian Green
Frederick Bliss
Byron Walley
Scott Richards
Dinah Kirkham
P.Q. Gump
Byron S. Walley
World
Death
Another
Trusted
Place
Terrible
Happens
Crazy
Certain
Happen
Anything
Gone
Nothing
Fear
Kind
Strong

More quotes by Orson Scott Card

Image
But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important they’d risk a shuttle and it’s crew just to catch me? I find that quite… flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
Orson Scott Card
Image
I'm crazy, said Ender. But I think I'm OK.
Orson Scott Card
Image
I am a creature of chemicals.
Orson Scott Card
Image
It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.
Orson Scott Card
Image
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.
Orson Scott Card
Image
The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
Orson Scott Card
Image
I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
Orson Scott Card
Image
When you really know someone, you can't hate him.
Orson Scott Card
Image
If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
Orson Scott Card
Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.
Orson Scott Card
Image
For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.
Orson Scott Card
Image
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott Card
Image
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
Orson Scott Card
Image
So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.
Orson Scott Card