The Quote Contest

Day 4,779, 02:34 • Published in India Croatia • by Anubis.3


As it’s popularly known, a single image is worth a thousand words. But, a single quote can very easily be a million. The right words, spoken at the right moment in history can go on to encompass so much and everything at the same time. Those words will keep on reverberating through history, centuries after they have been said and will inspire people, long after the individual who first said them is cold and buried. Today’s contest is all about quotes, before we delve in the contest, we’ll explore two of them.



Sydney Carton, a brilliant but depressed and cynical lawyer who has descended into alcoholism makes the ultimate sacrifice at the end of Charles Dickens “A tale of two cities” saving the life of a man who is the husband of a woman he has developed a deep, but unrequited love for. Through the years, many have debated the true meaning of the sacrifice, was it selfish, Carton doing it in an effort to seek redemption for the failures in his life or truly selfless, an act of nobility to save the life of someone married to his one true love?



In “Death’s end”, a group of space explorers stumble upon a fragment of a different reality within the universe. A fragment that holds many wondrous objects no humans could comprehend, and it’s slowly dying out, a dark and terrible secret within it.

The explorers meet a large ring shaped object that seems to have sentience. After establishing communication and teaching the Ring the human language (with the Rosetta system), they begin to talk. The first question is “did you build this high dimensional fragment?”, and the answer is “You say you come from the sea, did you build the sea?”

“What happened to this fragment, why is it shrinking?” is the next, inevitable question. The Ring responds “The fish responsible for drying the sea are not here”

As a species, we are very disconnected from the consequences of our actions. Most of the debts we accumulate as a species are often left for future generations to pay off, much like the case of global warming. Long after we’re gone, the future generations will have to deal with the consequences. Even if we do leave the earth and spread out to the stars, this will still hold true as well, and the future will invariably reap the consequences of our actions today. Arrogance, inevitably, will be the downfall of any species, for there will always be something grander and forces we do not understand.

So, what is the contest about?

All of us have our favourite quotes, words that we appreciate and live by. Please share them in the comments along with why it means so much to you personally. The reward will be free food, but the twist is that there is no fixed reward. It can be anything between 500 to 5000 energy, depending on how poignant your quote is. Extra points for uniqueness, relative obscurity, depth and votes on your comment.