Orson Scott Card Quotes About Desire

• The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mind, Desire, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2010). "El juego de Ender", p.15, Macmillan

• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, Desire, Humans

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Tor Books

• No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life Lesson, Heart, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Macmillan

• The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

  Orson Scott Card

  Evil, Desire, Destruction

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.147, Macmillan

• Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Hope, Ambition

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.246, Macmillan

• But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Hate, Heart, People

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.271, Macmillan

• If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

  Orson Scott Card

  Drunk, Brain, Desire

• She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

  Orson Scott Card

  Girl, Wise, Powerful

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.484, Macmillan

• Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Opportunity, Greatness, Knowing

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.213, Macmillan

• It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

  Orson Scott Card

  Essence, Desire, Dignity

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.190, Macmillan

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