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Top 25 Christopher Ruocchio Quotes (2025 Update)

Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Sad is like a big ocean, and you can’t breathe deep down. You can float on it, you can swim a little, but be careful. Grief is drowning. Grief is deep water.”

1. “Sad is like a big ocean, and you can’t breathe deep down. You can float on it, you can swim a little, but be careful. Grief is drowning. Grief is deep water.”

— Christopher Ruocchio

Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Always accuse the enemy of what you’re doing.”

2. “Always accuse the enemy of what you’re doing.”

— Christopher Ruocchio

Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Always forward, always down, and never left or right.”

3. “Always forward, always down, and never left or right.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “The man who hopes for the future delays its arrival, and the man who dreads it summons it to his door.”

4. “The man who hopes for the future delays its arrival, and the man who dreads it summons it to his door.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “As the ancient sea was cruel, so too is that blacker sea, vaster by far, that fills the void between the suns like water.”

5. “As the ancient sea was cruel, so too is that blacker sea, vaster by far, that fills the void between the suns like water.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “We live in stories, and in stories, we are subject to phenomena beyond the mechanisms of space and time. Fear and love, death and wrath and wisdom, these are as much part of our universe as light and gravity.”

6. “We live in stories, and in stories, we are subject to phenomena beyond the mechanisms of space and time. Fear and love, death and wrath and wisdom, these are as much part of our universe as light and gravity.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “A single death, wrote one ancient king, is a tragedy, but a genocide can only be understood through statistics.”

7. “A single death, wrote one ancient king, is a tragedy, but a genocide can only be understood through statistics.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “The greater part of wisdom is in silence.”

8. “The greater part of wisdom is in silence.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Great is Truth, and mighty above all things.”

9. “Great is Truth, and mighty above all things.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “But the ugliness of the world does not fade, and fear and grief are not made less by time. We are only made stronger. We can only float together on their tides, as otters do, hand in hand.”

10. “But the ugliness of the world does not fade, and fear and grief are not made less by time. We are only made stronger. We can only float together on their tides, as otters do, hand in hand.”

— Christopher Ruocchio

Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Augustine once said that if there are such things as the past and the future, they do not exist as such but are only the present in their own times. The past, he says, exists only in memory and the future only in expectation. Neither is real.”

11. “Augustine once said that if there are such things as the past and the future, they do not exist as such but are only the present in their own times. The past, he says, exists only in memory and the future only in expectation. Neither is real.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “The rightly tuned mind does not deny its emotions, but floats with them. It accepts what it feels and so incorporates that feeling to itself. Thus the mind is not subject, but rules itself.”

12. “The rightly tuned mind does not deny its emotions, but floats with them. It accepts what it feels and so incorporates that feeling to itself. Thus the mind is not subject, but rules itself.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “To love is in part the attempt to become a creature worthy of love.”

13. “To love is in part the attempt to become a creature worthy of love.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Focus blurs, Gibson used to say. Focus blinds. You must take in all of a thing by seeing the totality of it, not by focusing on minutiae. This is as important for a ruler as it is for a painter.”

14. “Focus blurs, Gibson used to say. Focus blinds. You must take in all of a thing by seeing the totality of it, not by focusing on minutiae. This is as important for a ruler as it is for a painter.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Sift the sand of every world and sort the dust of space between them, and you will find not one atom of fear, nor gram of love nor dram of hatred. Yet they are there, unseen and uncertain as the smallest quanta and just as real.”

15. “Sift the sand of every world and sort the dust of space between them, and you will find not one atom of fear, nor gram of love nor dram of hatred. Yet they are there, unseen and uncertain as the smallest quanta and just as real.”

— Christopher Ruocchio

Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “It is a mistake to believe we must know a thing to be influenced by it. It is a mistake to believe the thing must even be real.”

16. “It is a mistake to believe we must know a thing to be influenced by it. It is a mistake to believe the thing must even be real.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “The fool believes the iniquities of the world are the fault of other men. Gibson’s voice, dry as old manuscript pages, had never been more clear. The truly wise try to change themselves, which is the more difficult and less grand task.”

17. “The fool believes the iniquities of the world are the fault of other men. Gibson’s voice, dry as old manuscript pages, had never been more clear. The truly wise try to change themselves, which is the more difficult and less grand task.”

— Christopher Ruocchio

Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “But the truth is poor poetry.”

18. “But the truth is poor poetry.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “True lessons require not only knowing, but that the student practices his knowledge again and again. Thus knowledge becomes us, and we become more than the animal and the machine. That is why the best teachers are students always, and the best students are never fully educated.”

19. “True lessons require not only knowing, but that the student practices his knowledge again and again. Thus knowledge becomes us, and we become more than the animal and the machine. That is why the best teachers are students always, and the best students are never fully educated.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Dangerous things, names. A kind of curse, defining us that we might live up to them, or giving us something to run away from.”

20. “Dangerous things, names. A kind of curse, defining us that we might live up to them, or giving us something to run away from.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Civilization is a kind of prayer: that by right action we might bring to pass the peace and quiet that is the ardent desire of every decent heart.”

21. “Civilization is a kind of prayer: that by right action we might bring to pass the peace and quiet that is the ardent desire of every decent heart.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “My memory is to the world as a drawing is to the photograph. Imperfect. More perfect. We remember what we must, what we choose to, because it is more beautiful and real than the truth.”

22. “My memory is to the world as a drawing is to the photograph. Imperfect. More perfect. We remember what we must, what we choose to, because it is more beautiful and real than the truth.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “The worlds have enough of tyrants, enough of murderers and genocides.”

23. “The worlds have enough of tyrants, enough of murderers and genocides.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “Men are slower to act from principle than self-interest, and far slower to act on principle than jealousy or revenge.”

24. “Men are slower to act from principle than self-interest, and far slower to act on principle than jealousy or revenge.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “The practiced ear could hear the calculation behind every word like fishhooks in the mind.”

25. “The practiced ear could hear the calculation behind every word like fishhooks in the mind.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “You cannot lead as a tyrant. The people under you will not let you. To lead is a kind of service, a duty you owe to those who follow.”

26. “You cannot lead as a tyrant. The people under you will not let you. To lead is a kind of service, a duty you owe to those who follow.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “It was ironic that the same people who had enacted nuclear war on the Homeworld, who presided over the refugee camps and rotted the ecosphere, had balked in the face of blood sport. Would they call us barbarians, those men of ancient days?”

27. “It was ironic that the same people who had enacted nuclear war on the Homeworld, who presided over the refugee camps and rotted the ecosphere, had balked in the face of blood sport. Would they call us barbarians, those men of ancient days?”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “The poets say that one’s fears grow less with trial, that we become men without fear if tried enough. I have not found it to be so. Rather, on each occasion we are tested, we become stronger than our fears. It is all we can do. Must do. Lest we perish for our failings.”

28. “The poets say that one’s fears grow less with trial, that we become men without fear if tried enough. I have not found it to be so. Rather, on each occasion we are tested, we become stronger than our fears. It is all we can do. Must do. Lest we perish for our failings.”

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Christopher Ruocchio Quote: “But folk ain’t that different, one-to-one, no matter what’s on the outside. Doesn’t even matter where you been. Hurt the same, need the same. Need someone to remind them they’re human.”

29. “But folk ain’t that different, one-to-one, no matter what’s on the outside. Doesn’t even matter where you been. Hurt the same, need the same. Need someone to remind them they’re human.”

— Christopher Ruocchio

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