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Top 400 Dan Simmons Quotes (2026 Update)
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Dan Simmons Quote: “Goodsir rolled the corpse over while Fitzjames removed his jacket and beat out the flames rising from the dead man’s face and hair. Harry Goodsir felt as if he were watching all this from a great distance. The professional part of his mind noticed with cool detachment that the furnace, as poorly banked as the low coal flames had been, had melted the man’s eyes, burned away his nose and ears, and turned his face into the texture of an overbaked, bubbling raspberry flan.”

301. “Goodsir rolled the corpse over while Fitzjames removed his jacket and beat out the flames rising from the dead man’s face and hair. Harry Goodsir felt as if he were watching all this from a great distance. The professional part of his mind noticed with cool detachment that the furnace, as poorly banked as the low coal flames had been, had melted the man’s eyes, burned away his nose and ears, and turned his face into the texture of an overbaked, bubbling raspberry flan.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “It suddenly occurred to Baedecker that small towns in America were saner than cities because they were allowed to sleep.”

302. “It suddenly occurred to Baedecker that small towns in America were saner than cities because they were allowed to sleep.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “In an age of superchargers, turbochargers, and every other prosthetic breathing aid, this was a normally aspirated V-6 that derived speed from perfection.”

303. “In an age of superchargers, turbochargers, and every other prosthetic breathing aid, this was a normally aspirated V-6 that derived speed from perfection.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “I had long since learned that to read about the follies and scandals of the world was to desecrate the morning.”

304. “I had long since learned that to read about the follies and scandals of the world was to desecrate the morning.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Above me, far out from the cliff, a wide-winged Thomas Hawk circles above the lagoon on rising thermals and scans the shifting bluekelp beds with its infrared vision, seeking out harp seals or torpids. Nature is stupid, I think and sit in the soft grass.”

305. “Above me, far out from the cliff, a wide-winged Thomas Hawk circles above the lagoon on rising thermals and scans the shifting bluekelp beds with its infrared vision, seeking out harp seals or torpids. Nature is stupid, I think and sit in the soft grass.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “I was always waiting for you, she sent.”

306. “I was always waiting for you, she sent.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Only the descent of the writer to the world was more painful as he or she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.”

307. “Only the descent of the writer to the world was more painful as he or she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “All humans feed on violence, on the small exercises of power over another, but few have tasted – as we have – the ultimate power.”

308. “All humans feed on violence, on the small exercises of power over another, but few have tasted – as we have – the ultimate power.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Only humankind struggles and fails in becoming what it is. The reasons are many and complex, but all stem from the fact that we have evolved as one of the self-seeing organs of the evolving universe. Can the eye see itself?”

309. “Only humankind struggles and fails in becoming what it is. The reasons are many and complex, but all stem from the fact that we have evolved as one of the self-seeing organs of the evolving universe. Can the eye see itself?”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable.”

310. “And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “I have a friend,” said Baedecker, “who said that there might be places of power. She thinks we could do worse than to spend our lives searching for them. What do you think?”

311. “I have a friend,” said Baedecker, “who said that there might be places of power. She thinks we could do worse than to spend our lives searching for them. What do you think?”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Dust and powdered plaster hung in the air like incense, outlining two shafts of sunlight streaming down from narrow windows high above.”

312. “Dust and powdered plaster hung in the air like incense, outlining two shafts of sunlight streaming down from narrow windows high above.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “For the thousandth time, I wondered if there were a way to reprogram this autonomous intelligence so that it wasn’t such a pain in the ass.”

313. “For the thousandth time, I wondered if there were a way to reprogram this autonomous intelligence so that it wasn’t such a pain in the ass.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “The road turns and starts climbing where he impacted,” said Cameron. Dar winced slightly. He hated the verb-use of nouns such as impact.”

314. “The road turns and starts climbing where he impacted,” said Cameron. Dar winced slightly. He hated the verb-use of nouns such as impact.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Her eyes are open but she does not see.”

315. “Her eyes are open but she does not see.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Colonel Kassad returns to the fire and slides the night visor up onto the top of his helmet. Kassad is wearing full combat gear, and the activated chameleon polymer shows only his face, floating two meters above the ground. “Nothing,” he says. “No movement. No heat traces. No sound besides the wind.” Kassad leans the FORCE multipurpose assault rifle against a rock and sits near the others, the fibers of his impact armor deactivating into a matte black not much more visible than before.”

316. “Colonel Kassad returns to the fire and slides the night visor up onto the top of his helmet. Kassad is wearing full combat gear, and the activated chameleon polymer shows only his face, floating two meters above the ground. “Nothing,” he says. “No movement. No heat traces. No sound besides the wind.” Kassad leans the FORCE multipurpose assault rifle against a rock and sits near the others, the fibers of his impact armor deactivating into a matte black not much more visible than before.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “The firstdown team for this planet must have had a fixation on animals. Horse, Bear, Eagle. For three days we were creeping down the east coast of Equus over an irregular coastline called the Mane. We’ve spent the last day making the crossing of a short span of the Middle Sea to a large island called Cat Key. Today we are offloading passengers and freight at Felix, the “major city” of the island.”

317. “The firstdown team for this planet must have had a fixation on animals. Horse, Bear, Eagle. For three days we were creeping down the east coast of Equus over an irregular coastline called the Mane. We’ve spent the last day making the crossing of a short span of the Middle Sea to a large island called Cat Key. Today we are offloading passengers and freight at Felix, the “major city” of the island.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “You stay with her. I’ll follow it in.”

318. “You stay with her. I’ll follow it in.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “We all want to leave monuments.”

319. “We all want to leave monuments.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “I did not know if androids could dream –.”

320. “I did not know if androids could dream –.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “I have made command decisions based upon insights which would not have seemed totally logical outside the context of my experience and training.”

321. “I have made command decisions based upon insights which would not have seemed totally logical outside the context of my experience and training.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Writers were among my acquaintances but, as in all times, we tended to mistrust and badmouth each other, secretly resenting the others’ successes and finding fault in their work. Each of us knew in his or her heart that he or she was a true artist of the word who merely happened to be commercial; the others were hacks.”

322. “Writers were among my acquaintances but, as in all times, we tended to mistrust and badmouth each other, secretly resenting the others’ successes and finding fault in their work. Each of us knew in his or her heart that he or she was a true artist of the word who merely happened to be commercial; the others were hacks.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Actually, the production values for reality – as had doubtless been the case for centuries – were much lower than for even a moderate-budget holodrama.”

323. “Actually, the production values for reality – as had doubtless been the case for centuries – were much lower than for even a moderate-budget holodrama.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “We have made some progress, thought Gladstone, despite the inertia forced upon us by the Core. Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.”

324. “We have made some progress, thought Gladstone, despite the inertia forced upon us by the Core. Despite the near-death of science. Despite our fatal addiction to the toys granted us by our own creations.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Ah, well, thought Charlie, ours is not to wonder why, ours is but to do and die.”

325. “Ah, well, thought Charlie, ours is not to wonder why, ours is but to do and die.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Even places of power are useless unless you’re prepared to bring something to them. And I don’t mean just the things we brought – they’re to the real sacrament what the lump of bread is to the Eucharist. Then, if you come away the same person you were, you know it wasn’t really a place of power.”

326. “Even places of power are useless unless you’re prepared to bring something to them. And I don’t mean just the things we brought – they’re to the real sacrament what the lump of bread is to the Eucharist. Then, if you come away the same person you were, you know it wasn’t really a place of power.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “To call this conveyance a “passenger dirigible” is an exercise in creative semantics. It is a huge lifting device with cargo holds large enough to carry the town of Felix out to sea and still have room for thousands of bales of fiberplastic. Meanwhile, the less important cargo – we passengers – make do where we can.”

327. “To call this conveyance a “passenger dirigible” is an exercise in creative semantics. It is a huge lifting device with cargo holds large enough to carry the town of Felix out to sea and still have room for thousands of bales of fiberplastic. Meanwhile, the less important cargo – we passengers – make do where we can.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Yggdrasill – one of only five of its kind – into a war.”

328. “Yggdrasill – one of only five of its kind – into a war.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Now he asked, his voice as careful and unslurred as only a true alcoholic’s can be, whose turn it was to tell a tale.”

329. “Now he asked, his voice as careful and unslurred as only a true alcoholic’s can be, whose turn it was to tell a tale.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “And what was our DNA designed to do for the first few hundred million years, my son? Eat? Kill? Procreate? Were we any less ignoble in our beginnings than the pre-Hegira silicon and DNA-based AIs? As Teilhard would have it, it is consciousness which God has created to accelerate the universe’s self-awareness as a means to understanding His will.”

330. “And what was our DNA designed to do for the first few hundred million years, my son? Eat? Kill? Procreate? Were we any less ignoble in our beginnings than the pre-Hegira silicon and DNA-based AIs? As Teilhard would have it, it is consciousness which God has created to accelerate the universe’s self-awareness as a means to understanding His will.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “A Million years of Man’s Medicinal Progress will never reveal the secret Condition and sealed Compartments of the Human Soul.”

331. “A Million years of Man’s Medicinal Progress will never reveal the secret Condition and sealed Compartments of the Human Soul.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “We all retreat into ourselves in some way.”

332. “We all retreat into ourselves in some way.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Suddenly a scream froze her in her tracks. It.”

333. “Suddenly a scream froze her in her tracks. It.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “From what Paul tells me,” said the Monsignor, “the Consul was true to his convictions, faithful to the memory of his grandmother Siri.”

334. “From what Paul tells me,” said the Monsignor, “the Consul was true to his convictions, faithful to the memory of his grandmother Siri.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Anyway,” I said, “the almost universal reaction to the poem – according to Grandam – was that it was weakened by this sentimentality.”

335. “Anyway,” I said, “the almost universal reaction to the poem – according to Grandam – was that it was weakened by this sentimentality.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Being born again doesn’t mean that you’ve arrived somewhere,” said Dave. “It means you’re ready to start the trip. The pilgrimage to more places of power, the doomed quest to keep the people and things you love from being caught by the weeds and dragged under.”

336. “Being born again doesn’t mean that you’ve arrived somewhere,” said Dave. “It means you’re ready to start the trip. The pilgrimage to more places of power, the doomed quest to keep the people and things you love from being caught by the weeds and dragged under.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “I’m a childish fellow,” responded Silenus with his satyr’s smile. “Ambassador” – he nodded toward the Consul – “could I borrow that gilded pillow you’re wearing for a hat?” The.”

337. “I’m a childish fellow,” responded Silenus with his satyr’s smile. “Ambassador” – he nodded toward the Consul – “could I borrow that gilded pillow you’re wearing for a hat?” The.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “You’ll have to ask him in the next life,” said Sol tiredly. “He’s dead.”

338. “You’ll have to ask him in the next life,” said Sol tiredly. “He’s dead.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “He wasn’t interested in asking questions, only in finding answers.” “What’s the difference?” asked Baedecker. He felt the conversation slipping out of his control, dropping away from him like an aircraft that had reached stall speed. “The difference is that Scott took the line of least resistance,” said Maggie. “Like most people, he found it too uncomfortable to be out in the open, unsheltered by some shadow of authority. So when the questions got too hard, he settled for easy answers.”

339. “He wasn’t interested in asking questions, only in finding answers.” “What’s the difference?” asked Baedecker. He felt the conversation slipping out of his control, dropping away from him like an aircraft that had reached stall speed. “The difference is that Scott took the line of least resistance,” said Maggie. “Like most people, he found it too uncomfortable to be out in the open, unsheltered by some shadow of authority. So when the questions got too hard, he settled for easy answers.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “It dealt with the Olympian struggle which followed the Titans’ refusal to be displaced – the boiling of great seas as Oceanus struggled with Neptune, his usurper, the extinction of suns as Hyperion struggled with Apollo for control of the light, and the trembling of the universe itself as Saturn struggled with Jupiter for control of the throne of the gods.”

340. “It dealt with the Olympian struggle which followed the Titans’ refusal to be displaced – the boiling of great seas as Oceanus struggled with Neptune, his usurper, the extinction of suns as Hyperion struggled with Apollo for control of the light, and the trembling of the universe itself as Saturn struggled with Jupiter for control of the throne of the gods.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Do you believe in God?” Sol had not smiled. He had no choice but to give her the answer he had given her a million times. “I’m waiting to,” he said.”

341. “Do you believe in God?” Sol had not smiled. He had no choice but to give her the answer he had given her a million times. “I’m waiting to,” he said.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.”

342. “No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned – as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings – that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.”

343. “The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned – as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings – that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “The Consul gripped the edges of the mat with fingers gone white. He had tied the strap of his duffel bag around his belt, otherwise the bag would have tumbled off to a glacier far below.”

344. “The Consul gripped the edges of the mat with fingers gone white. He had tied the strap of his duffel bag around his belt, otherwise the bag would have tumbled off to a glacier far below.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “It just makes me so goddamn mad,” she said, still looking away from Saul. “Yes.” “I mean, it’s like he didn’t even count. He wasn’t important. Do you know what I mean?”

345. “It just makes me so goddamn mad,” she said, still looking away from Saul. “Yes.” “I mean, it’s like he didn’t even count. He wasn’t important. Do you know what I mean?”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Dale stepped over to the large console radio and wrestled it away from the wall. The inside was empty. No wires, no tubes, no lights for the dial, no works at all. Dale looked at the interiors of the other radios he’d listened to over the past two months. All empty.”

346. “Dale stepped over to the large console radio and wrestled it away from the wall. The inside was empty. No wires, no tubes, no lights for the dial, no works at all. Dale looked at the interiors of the other radios he’d listened to over the past two months. All empty.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Crozier hurts to the cavity in the center of his self where he is sure his soul had resided until it floated away on a sea of whiskey over the decades.”

347. “Crozier hurts to the cavity in the center of his self where he is sure his soul had resided until it floated away on a sea of whiskey over the decades.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Richard,” said Dave, “do you ever wonder how much of your life you’ve spent trying to please the dead?”

348. “Richard,” said Dave, “do you ever wonder how much of your life you’ve spent trying to please the dead?”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “Anything which deceives is evil, I believe.”

349. “Anything which deceives is evil, I believe.”

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Dan Simmons Quote: “I was getting used to the caustic voice in my head. It and I had made a peace when I realized that it wasn’t urging me to lie down and die, just critiquing my inadequate efforts to stay alive.”

350. “I was getting used to the caustic voice in my head. It and I had made a peace when I realized that it wasn’t urging me to lie down and die, just critiquing my inadequate efforts to stay alive.”

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