Orson Scott Card Life Quotations

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

How short life is for fools.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.