Orson Scott Card Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Soul, Humanity

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1034, Macmillan

• There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Father, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.67, Macmillan

• She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

  Orson Scott Card

  Passion, Character, Men

  "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.

• Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

  Orson Scott Card

  Mother, Husband, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.86, Macmillan

• The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

  Orson Scott Card

  Choices, Soul, Responsible

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

• Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Opportunity, Greatness, Knowing

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.213, Macmillan

• I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Two, Soul

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.90, Macmillan

• Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

  Orson Scott Card

  Soul, Good Souls, Ifs

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1728, Macmillan

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