Orson Scott Card Quotes about Life

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Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

Orson Scott Card

Life, People, And Love

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston (2014). “Earth Awakens”, p.348, Macmillan

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Orson Scott Card

Inspirational, Life, Identity

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.148, Macmillan

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win.

Orson Scott Card

Life, Fighting, Winning

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.143, Macmillan

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Orson Scott Card

Life, Believe, Thinking

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.416, 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

Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll be drinking Bonzo's blood water in the morning. All the life gone out of it, but his blood just the same, his blood and my sweat, washed down in their stupidity or cruelty or whatever it was that made them let it happen.

Orson Scott Card

Life, Running, Morning

Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.139, Macmillan