The Time Machine Quotes

“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

“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

“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Underworld in a second, and examined it at leisure.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:memory

“She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

“Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:weakness comfort

“The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:intelligence

“The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:intelligence doubt

“I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:romance vanity

“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:stars

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