# Quote — Isaac Asimov, The Stars, Like Dust

> “That’s an amusing thought, if you’ll consider it.”
>
> “Do you find everything amusing?”
>
> “Why not? As an attitude toward life, it’s an amusing one. It’s the only adjective that will fit. Observe the universe, young man. If you can’t force amusement out of it, you might as well cut your throat, since there’s damn little good in it.”

- Author: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md)
- Book: [The Stars, Like Dust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust.md)
- Page: 51
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#The_Stars,_Like_Dust_(1951)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust/thats-an-amusing

## More from this book

> “At least try to see my motives. Granted that I was foolish—criminally foolish—can’t you understand? Can’t you try not to hate me?”
>
> She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”

p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust/at-least-try.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md)

> The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm, but a certain lack of certainty was gathering, and he did not like to experience a lack of certainty. He liked nothing which made him aware of limitations. An Autarch should have no limitations, and on Lingane he had none that natural law did not impose.

p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust/the-autarch-maintained.md)

Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md)

> I see your vile implication. My only explanation for it is that you are criminally insane.

p. 156 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust/i-see-your.md)