Robert Charles Wilson Quotes

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

Part of waging war is knowing when you’re outgunned.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

~ Robert Charles Wilson

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.I am the one who wakes up in the morning.Always.Every morning.I don’t die.I just become increasingly unlikely.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes, that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

~ Robert Charles Wilson

The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.

~ Robert Charles Wilson