Karellen Quotes in Childhood’s End
“It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.”
“All of our sojourn here has been based on a vast deception, a concealment of truths which you were not ready to face.”
For all their achievements, thought Karellen, for all their mastery of the physical universe, his people were no better than a tribe that has passed its whole existence upon some flat and dusty plain. Far off were the mountains, where power and beauty dwelt […] And they could only watch and wonder; they could never scale those heights.
Karellen Quotes in Childhood’s End
“It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.”
“All of our sojourn here has been based on a vast deception, a concealment of truths which you were not ready to face.”
For all their achievements, thought Karellen, for all their mastery of the physical universe, his people were no better than a tribe that has passed its whole existence upon some flat and dusty plain. Far off were the mountains, where power and beauty dwelt […] And they could only watch and wonder; they could never scale those heights.