The Dying Earth Quotes

“Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.”
― jack vance

“Earth . . . A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge . . . Ages of rain and wind have beaten and rounded the granite, and the sun is red and feeble . . . A million cities have lifted towers, have fallen to dust. In place of the old peoples a few thousand strange souls live. There is evil on Earth . . . Earth is dying . . .”
― Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth

“T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty.”
― Jack Vance, The Dying Earth