# Quote — Poul Anderson, The Enemy Stars

> I’ll give you one thing to mull over, though. If the body’s such a valueless piece of pork, and we’ll all meet each other in the sweet bye and bye, and so on, why’re you busting every gut you own to get back to your wife?

- Author: [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md)
- Book: [The Enemy Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars.md)
- Page: 87
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#The_Enemy_Stars_(1959)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/ill-give-you

## More from this book

> I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.

p. 20 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/i-do-not.md)

> I’m afraid I’m not a convert or anything. I still see the same blind cosmos governed by the same blind laws. But suddenly it matters. It matters terribly, and means something. What, I haven’t figured out yet. I probably never will. But I have a reason for living, or for dying if need be. Maybe that’s the whole purpose of life: purpose itself. I can’t say. But I expect to enjoy the world a lot more.

p. 129 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/im-afraid-im-not.md)

> Then they died.
>
> And other men came after them. Wars flamed up and burned out; the howling peoples dwelt in smashed cities and kindled their fires with books.

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-enemy-stars/then-they-died.md)