H. G. Wells Quotes

“The contagion of such a unanimous fear was inevitable.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

topic:fear

“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:heart

“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:strength weakness need

“What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful?”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:power humanity cruelty

“What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:pain progress

“At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

topic:world

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:change science intelligence danger

“I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:belief

“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”

― H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man

topic:education

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