Sheri S. Tepper Quotes

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shou...

Man constantly prayed to God for peace, but peace never happened, so he decided that his god must re...

For it would be only for a time. Until what he knew and thought became no longer relevant or necessa...

A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the...

Only fools insist upon life at any cost.... Others would say that life may be laid down when it beco...

They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconcepti...

We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone...

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in trans...

Not many years before the Happening, one of your country's largest religious bodies officially decla...

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

Our ancestors have much to answer for.Why? What did they do?....Long ago, they used machines and dru...

Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain ...

HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. ...

(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to...

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in ...

Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to ca...

Our lives are made up of many things, not just one. Many answers, not just one. It's men that want o...

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says,...

As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you c...

We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell f...