# Quote — Michael Moorcock, The City in the Autumn Stars

> Do you know what damnation can be, Sir? It can be a state of permanent caution, making one chronically unable to risk anything, even a risk which might save one from extinction.

- Author: [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md)
- Book: [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md)
- Page: 283
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_City_in_the_Autumn_Stars_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/do-you-know

## More from this book

> “Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?”
>
> “The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.”

p. 377 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/are-you-aware.md)

> The English, I now know, eat mashed fish and deviled sheep’s hearts to guarantee a bad digestion (and consequent irritability). It is their abominable cooking which has given them half the world as their Empire.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/the-english-i-now.md)

> You may be abandoned by Satan, Sir, and I abandoned by God, but that does not put us in the same cart, nor even upon the same road.

p. 406 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/you-may-be-abandoned.md)