David Brin Quotes

To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

There's got to be something greater than us.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

The universe does not make sense without God.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?