E Pluribus Unicorn Quotes

“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? ”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“There was such a rush about me: wing, and tangled spray, and colors upon colors and shades of colors that were not colors at all but shifts of white and silver. If light like that were sound, it would sound like the sea on sand, and if my ears were eyes, they would see such a light.

I crouched there, gasping in the swirl of it, and a flood struck me, shallow and swift, turning up and outward like flower petals where it touched my knees, then soaking me to the waist in its bubble and crash. I pressed my knuckles to my eyes so they would open again. The sea on my lips with the taste of tears and the whole white night shouted and wept aloud.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“She was perhaps seventeen when it happened. She was in Central Park, in New York. It was too warm for such an early spring day, and the hammered brown slopes had a dusting of green of precisely the consistency of that morning's hoarfrost on the rocks. But the frost was gone and the grass was brave and tempted some hundreds of pairs of feet from the asphalt and concrete to tread on it.

Hers were among them. The sprouting soil was a surprise to her feet, as the air was to her lungs. Her feet ceased to be shoes as she walked, her body was consciously more than clothes. It was the only kind of day which in itself can make a city-bred person raise his eyes. She did.

For a moment she felt separated from the life she lived, in which there was no fragrance, no silence, in which nothing ever quite fit nor was quite filled. In that moment the ordered disapproval of the buildings around the pallid park could not reach her; for two, three clean breaths it no longer mattered that the whole wide world really belongs to images projected on a screen; to gently groomed goddesses in these steel-and-glass towers; that it belonged, in short, always, always to someone else.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“Cuando la situación se vuelve insoportable, cuando a nadie le importas ni le importaste nunca... tiras una botella al mar y con ella se va una parte de tu soledad”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“¿Por qué tenemos que amar donde cae el relámpago y no donde nosotros elegimos?... Pero me alegro que seas tú, pequeño principe. Me alegro que seas tú.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“Hay en ciertas almas vivas una atroz forma de soledad, tan grande que debe ser compartida como la compañía que comparten los seres inferiores. Esa soledad es mía, y quiero que con esto sepas que en la inmensidad hay alguien más solo que tú.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“Hasta la soledad tiene un límite para quienes están suficientemente solos durante suficiente tiempo”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“No me gustan los intelectuales hombres de las letras con sus conversaciones sobrecargadas de citas.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“¿Acaso hay algún amor en alguna parte sin su propio lenguaje?”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“El mundo está lleno de personas que se sienten incompletas, personas que tienen todo lo que pueden desear y que sin embargo no son felices, personas que se sienten solas en una multitud. El mundo está poblado casi exclusivamente de fantasmas.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“Los gatos son sin duda las criaturas más egoístas, ingratas e hipócritas de este u otros mundos. Engendrados de una nefasta alianza entre Lilit y Satanás...”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“Un gato es el único animal que puede vivir como un parásito y conservar plenamente su capacidad de cuidar de sí mismo. Oímos hablar de perros perdidos, pero nunca de gatos perdidos. Los gatos no se pierden porque los gatos no son de niguna parte.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“For a time he watched the Captain's unconscious face, reading it with great tenderness and utmost attention, like a mother with an infant.
His words said, Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?
And they said, But I'm glad it's you, little prince. I'm glad it's you.
He put out his huge hand and, with a feather touch, stroked the sleeping lips.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn

“And let the days go by, and let the time pass, and huddle beneath your impenetrable integument, and wait, and wait, and every once in a long while you will have that moment of lonely consciousness when there is no one around to see; and then it may burst from you and you may dance, or cry, or twist the hair on your head till your eyeballs blaze, or do any of the other things your so unfashionable nature thirstily demands.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, E Pluribus Unicorn