Arthur Quotes

Lancelot and Guinevere – they looked like two flowers, bright enough to turn to each other for sunlight.

Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.

Stephen R. Lawhead

(...)Through the ship's telescopes, he had watched the death of the solar system. With his own eyes, he had seen the volcanoes of Mars erupt for the first time in a billion years; Venus briefly naked as her atmosphere was blasted into space before she herself was consumed; the gas giants exploding into incandescent fireballs. But these were empty, meaningless spectacles compared with the tragedy of Earth.That, too, he had watched through the lenses of cameras that had survived a few minutes longer than the devoted men who had sacrificed the last moments of their lives to set them up. He had seen ...... the Great Pyramid, glowing dully red before it slumped into a puddle of molten stone ...... the floor of the Atlantic, baked rock-hard in seconds, before it was submerged again, by the lava gushing from the volcanoes of the Mid-ocean Rift...... the Moon rising above the flaming forests of Brazil and now itself shining almost as brilliantly as had the Sun, on its last setting, only minutes before ...... the continent of Antarctica emerging briefly after its long burial, as the kilometres of ancient ice were burned away ...... the mighty central span of the Gibraltar Bridge, melting even as it slumped downward through the burning air ...In that last century the Earth was haunted with ghosts - not of the dead, but of those who now could never be born. For five hundred years the birthrate had been held at a level that would reduce the human population to a few millions when the end finally came. Whole cities - even countries - had been deserted as mankind huddled together for History's closing act.

Arthur C. Clarke

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

Rudyard Kipling

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try