# Hyperion - Author: [Dan Simmons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons.md) - Quotes: 23 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion ## Quotes > Sol found their tracts the usual combination of double talk and navel lint-gathering common to most religions. p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/sol-found-their.md) > The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power. p. 105 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/the-lieutenant-took.md) > Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s. p. 191 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/yes-our-dna.md) > It struck me that his dialect was actually the nondialect of someone who has learned a new language perfectly but without the lazy shortcuts of someone born to it. p. 355 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/it-struck-me-that.md) > In such seconds of decision entire futures are made. p. 431 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/in-such-seconds.md) > There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real. p. 433 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/there-is-something.md) > Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings. p. 191 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/words-bend-our.md) > “I ignore religions,” said Brawne Lamia. “I do not succumb to them.” p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/i-ignore-religions.md) > Listen! There will be no more offerings, neither child nor parent. There will be no more sacrifices for anyone other than our fellow human. The time of obedience and atonement is past. p. 308 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/listen-there-will.md) > Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play. p. 249 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/another-friend-a-child.md) > If our society ever opted for Orwell’s Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be the credit wake. In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person’s activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. p. 345 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/if-our-society.md) > It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. p. 472 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/it-no-longer.md) > I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it. p. 90 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/i-now-understand.md) > After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal (sic) which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. p. 292 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/after-fifty-five-years.md) > Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.” p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/poets-are-the.md) > “How about,” she said, “that you do the logical thing because it’s the logical thing to do?” p. 315 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/how-about-she.md) > Sol realized what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called “public’s right to know.” p. 287 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/sol-realized-what.md) > Sarai had treasured every stage of Rachel’s childhood, enjoying the day-to-day normalcy of things; a normalcy which she quietly accepted as the best of life. She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and the triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things—the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossing and connections casual, dialogues imminently (sic) forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal. p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/sarai-had-treasured.md) > The story of Rachel’s unique illness was no secret in Crawford, of course. The fact of it had spread through the college the first year of Rachel’s return and the entire town knew soon after. Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial—some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else’s misfortune out of their voices and gazes—but mostly the community had folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young. p. 286 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/the-story-of-rachels.md) > Words are the only bullets in truth’s bandolier. And poets are the snipers. p. 192 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/words-are-the.md) > Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. p. 186 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/belief-in-ones.md) > In the beginning was the Word. > > In the end...past honor, past life, past caring... > > In the end will be the Word. p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/in-the-beginning-was.md) > In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes. p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/in-the-beginning.md)