Isaac Long

“They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

“The lights shifted into and out of his field of view. He wondered if that was what it would be like to look at stars. He’d never looked up at a sky. The thought inspired a certain vertigo. A sense of terror of the infinite that was almost pleasant. “There”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“He’d learned firsthand that he was capable of killing another human being. And nowhere along the line could he say that there, at that moment, he had been a sane, whole man, and that afterward, he hadn’t. Maybe”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

“It was the end of civilization, the end of all that men had striven for since the beginning of time. In the space of a few days, humanity had lost its future, for the heart of any race is destroyed, and its will to survive is utterly broken, when its children are taken from it. There”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End