73 Quotes by Joan D. Vinge

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what’s taken us so far.

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don’t we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.

Don’t worry. You’re safe now. You’ve got nothing left to steal.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you’d ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Besides, wouldn’t it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

How time slips past, masked in the rhythm of the days!

You’ve made her so beautiful; when she’s come to take your life away.