Kris Kelvin

"We are not explorers of space. We are refugees from ourselves."

"We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to include the cosmos."

"We are who we are because of what we remember."

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead, and I'm not sure it matters anymore."

"The ocean thinks, but in a way we cannot comprehend."

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled."

"Consciousness is a burden we cannot put down."

"To understand another being completely is perhaps impossible."

"We are prisoners of our own emotions."

"The past is a phantom we cannot escape."

"The ocean is not evil; it simply is."

"We are all exiles from our own lives."

"Identity is a fiction we maintain through repetition."

"Time does not heal; it merely distances."

"The only truth is that we cannot know truth."

"We are only seeking man. We have no interest in conquering other worlds or in coming into contact with other civilizations. We want to find man, and to understand him, but we don't know how."

"Love is the only force that transcends the boundaries of reason and science."

"To know oneself requires confronting the unbearable truth of one's own existence."

"We are haunted not by the dead, but by the possibilities of what we could have been."

"We seek answers where only questions exist, and questions where answers are forbidden."

"The human heart is a universe more complex than all the stars we survey."

"The presence of the alien only emphasizes how utterly alone we are."

"Hope is a luxury we can afford only when we stop seeking truth."

"The ocean thinks in ways that reduce our greatest thoughts to whispers."

"Love makes us vulnerable to forces we can neither name nor resist."

"We are explorers of the external world precisely because we fear exploring ourselves."

"To be human is to be incomplete, reaching always toward what we cannot grasp."

"We send our best minds to the stars, only to discover that understanding requires a heart."

"Solitude at the edge of the universe is the truest mirror of the human condition."

"The most profound discoveries teach us only what we have lost."