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“sounding now/old songs/deep water/no-Great Voices/no-Shark/old songs/new songs”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“I sit, and moan,
Like one who once had wings.”
― John Keats

“Hyperion: We're going to die here today.
Thor: Aye...But let it be on our terms. One more time. Our very...Huurggg!...best.
(Thor is unable to lift the mjolnir from an alternate universe - Thorr's hammer of unworthiness)
Thor: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! So be it. If this is the end let me not meet is as The Unworthy...but as my father's son. The occasion demands I offer you a drink, Hyperion, but unfortunately, I have none.
Hyperion: That's because we drank it all, brother.
Thor: Yes. We did.. Nothing left to do now but the other thing.
Hyperion: I just want to say... for some time I believed I survived the death of two worlds -- now I know it just took a while to catch up with me. It's a dark thing, what my life became... you have made it better, Odinson. Will you wait for me in Valhalla?
Thor: Brother... this day, I will race you there.
*Against the bleak nothing of dead space, two gods fell to many. The sun shone one last time. There was lightning, and thunder... and then silence.*”
― Jonathan Hickman, Avengers: Time Runs Out, Vol. 4

“Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.”
― Dan Simmons

“O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only; as God revealed himself to the prophet of old in the still, small voice; and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

“I confess that I felt something closer to exaltation than fear. Something inexplicable was happening. Forged in Jesuit logic and tempered in the cold bath of science. I nevertheless understood at that second the ancient obsession of the God-fearing for another kind of fear: the thrill of exorcism, the mindless whirl of Dervish possession, the puppet-dance ritual of Tarot, and the almost erotic surrender of séance, speaking in tongues, and Zen Gnostic trance. I realized at that instant just how surely the affirmation of demons or the summoning of Satan somehow can affirm the reality of their mystic antithesis â€� the God of Abraham.”
― Dan Simmons

“You want to be the tallest tree in the forest and let all the trees see you easily; but remember that lightnings will easily see you as well!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The Shrike pilgrims were subdued, as if still contemplating Colonel Kassad's grim and confusing tale. The Consul had been drinking steadily since before midday and now he felt the pleasant displacement - from reality, from the pain of memory - which allowed him to get through each day and night. 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.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“If there is a god [...] he's a poet. And a failed one at that.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion #2

“dreams are all that separates us from the machines”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion #2

“Le parole piegano il nostro pensiero in infiniti sentieri d'illusione; e se trascorriamo gran parte della nostra vita mentale in palazzi cerebrali fatti di parole, significa che non possediamo l'obiettività necessaria per scorgere la terribile distorsione della realtà che il linguaggio porta con sé.”
― Dan Simmons, Hypérion 1

“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man has seen the light, this is next best by far, that all speed he should go thither, whence he hath come.”
― Sophocles