Fritz Leiber Quotes
December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992
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Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.
Fritz Leiber— "Poor Superman" (1951), also published in the anthology Tomorrow (1952), edited by Robert A. Heinlein
A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 3 (p. 39)
Thoughts are dangerous , he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 10 (p. 106)
What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 11 (p. 116)
' Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 20 (p. 209)
I abominate any organization that denies cats are people !
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 3 (The Wanderer (1964))
It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 3 (p. 26)
There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 5 (p. 33)
Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 16 (p. 113)
Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age’s vaunted ‘communications industry’ had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 21 (p. 158)
There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 33 (p. 259)
The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 33 (p. 259)
Paul stared out at the randomly scattered, lonely stars and wondered why he had always so easily accepted that they represented order.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 34 (p. 270)
Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 40 (p. 312)
The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That’s why they’re the gods! I told you they were devils.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 42 (pp. 336-337)
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.
Fritz Leiber— Chapter 42 (p. 340)
