Solaris

Book · 3 characters · 198 quotes · 1961

Quotes from Solaris

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"The dead do not leave us; they haunt our decisions."
Kris Kelvin Death
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"What is this need to fabricate meaning where none exists?"
Kris Kelvin Philosophy
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"We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos."
Kris Kelvin
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"Perhaps the greatest love is the acceptance of another's otherness."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"She was a ghost made manifest by desire."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"Love demands sacrifice, but cannot guarantee reciprocation."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"Memory shapes us more than reality ever could."
Kris Kelvin Life
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"We are forever isolated in our individual consciousness."
Kris Kelvin Solitude
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"She existed in the space between thought and dream."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"We are creatures of habit and memory, bound by our past."
Kris Kelvin Life
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"We carry our dead with us always."
Kris Kelvin Death
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"We are haunted by our pasts, whether those pasts are real or imagined."
Kris Kelvin Life
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"She was real to me, real in every way that mattered."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"Love is the attempt to change something evil into something good through the person we love."
Kris Kelvin Love
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"Memory is both a blessing and a curse."
Kris Kelvin Life
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"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
Kris Kelvin Wisdom
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"Nothing is as terrible as the realization that you don't understand anything."
Kris Kelvin Truth
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"I am thinking of my world, of Earth, and of the fact that I don't know it at all."
Kris Kelvin Knowledge