Quotes from The Stars, Like Dust

Isaac Asimov ·  304 pages

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“Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a dilettante? To be eternally amused? To be of no account? To be so effete and faintly ridiculous that you have convinced all who know you of your own worthlessness? All so that your life may be safe even though it means it has become barely worth living. But even so, once in a while I can fight them.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust



“Yok olmaktan kurtulanların pek azını teşkil eden bu edebiyat, beni kendisine aşık etti. Bizim dışa dönük dünyamızın tam aksine bu eserlerde içe dönük bir şeyler var.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“Gecenin bastırması, kökleri insanlık tarihinin başlarına kadar uzanan büyük bir psikolojik huzursuzluk yaratır. Gece daima bir güvensizlik ve korku zamanıdır ve cesaret güneşle birlikte batıp gitmiştir.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“Öylesine gülünç olacaksınız ki herkes bir hiç olduğunuza inanacak. Bunun da tek amacı hayatınızı korumak... Gerçekten yaşanmaya değer olup olmadığı şüpheli olan hayatınızı...”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


“In fact, it was part of the Tyrannian military tradition that a little discomfort on the part of the soldier was good for discipline.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust



“Being helpless is one of the things that isn’t altogether amusing." - Gilbert”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Stars, Like Dust


About the author

Isaac Asimov
Born place: in Petrovichi, Russian Federation
Born date January 2, 1920
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