Universe Of Obligation Quotes

#1. The Universe had no obligation to create anything at all, yet life managed to make a grand entrance on at least one tiny pale blue dot in a truly spectacular way.

Mathew Anderson

#2. The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger
so it be done for love, and not forostentation
do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause.

Kim Harrison

#4. He was conscious that his thoughts and feelings were the same utterly unoriginal torments of billions like him: the bewildering indifference of the universe, the pointlessness of suffering, the inescapable obligation to abide with it.

James Howard Kunstler

#5. He gave me an inscrutable look that said maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't. Mister was a cat, and cats generally considered it the obligation of the universe to provide shelter, sustenance, and amusement as required. I think Mister considered it beneath his dignity to plan for the future.

Jim Butcher

#6. The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a hunger for its own reification, a demand that imposes an obligation on reality and that grows imperceptibly into a bona fide claim, an IOU clamoring for payment.

Bruno Schulz

#7. The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

The Joker Heath Ledger

#9. The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

Ray Bradbury

#10. It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.

Barton Gellman

#11. Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.

Douglas Adams

#12. Without knowing what we were doing, Eliza and I were putting the traditional curse of monsters on normal creatures. We were asking for respect.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

Stephen Crane

#14. as though the Universe itself were under an obligation to bother itself about them, for it never gets tired of wrapping up God Himself in the petty misery in which its troubles are involved. And

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.

Brian Herbert

#16. Having to do something is an obligation, a duty, a will that is not your own. Wanting to do something is a choice that requires heart, desire, a will that is yours. Those two concepts are a universe apart. I wanted to, Abby

Ashlan Thomas

#17. The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Richard Whately

#18. That's what you don't get, Hadlee. You're saving me too. Every second I spend with you, you save me a little more. When I'm around you, I want to better myself. I want to be a better man.

Lauren Hammond