Dan Simmons

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#reality #imagination

... In the end - when all else is dust - loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith - true faith - was trusting in that love. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#faith #love #loyalty #death

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer ↗

— Dan Simmons

#humankind #natural-order #change

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

#leadership #politics #zeitgeist #age

I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#love-story #love

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#equality

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#life

I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as pure as spring water. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#motivational

Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#religion #truth #religion

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#catholic church #church #depiction #meant #meant to be