The Time Machine Quotes

“We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:life time present

“Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:time reality existence

“There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:time

“And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:time present

“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:time consciousness

“Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:freedom

“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

“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

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