82 Quotes by Greg Bear

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical needs. All is vibration, with nothing vibrating across no distance whatsoever. All is music. A universe, a world, is just one long difficult song. The difference between worlds is the difference between songs.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization...

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.