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"Everyone wants you to have freedom of speech, until they don't like what the f&^% you got to say" - Bill Burr.

The man is a sage.

 gorgon wrote:
Hmm. How about every third line of Frank Herbert's Dune series?

I thought always thought this one was particularly beautiful:

The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.

well Mr Herbert did know his way round a goodly number of faiths and lifted a lot, that one seems to a be a version of wave/ocean thing from buddahism, although still think the Bene Geesert are my favourite, basically a science cult hiding behind faith only for it to derail by Jessica being unpredictably human

Bran Dawri wrote:
"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."
I think that was G'Kar, but it may have been someone else. Definitely Babylon 5 though.

Marcus, the Ranger.

I always think of that line when something terrible involving children comes on the news, and people start yapping about ineffable plans and creepy moral philosophies that suggest that somehow, its accounted for and OK. An indifferently hostile universe is much more of a comfort than the idea that the sheer multitude of terrible things was planned in advance.