Jack Vance - Life Quotes

7 Sourced Quotes

View all Jack Vance Quotes

The crime, said the Jacynth softly, is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.

Jack Vance

Another busy day! So let's to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!

Jack Vance

Tell me, then! What is so important?
Your life! I could not bear that you should lose it!
I feel much the same. Say on.

Jack Vance

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

Jack Vance

Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.

Jack Vance

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

Jack Vance

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

Jack Vance