Life Quotes Quote by Arthur C. Clarke — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Humor was the enemy of desire.”

“They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.”

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”

“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.”

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”

“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”

“Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”

“It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.”