Quotes by John Wyndham

John Wyndham

…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

Islands

Planets

Space

And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body’s love, but beyond that they fail clumsily. My love flowed out to her, hers back to me. Mine stroked and soothed. Hers caressed. The distance – and the difference – between us dwindled and vanished. We could meet, mingle, and blend. Neither one of us existed any more; for a time there was a single being that was both. There was escape from the solitary cell; a brief symbiosis, sharing all the word.

Cells

Differences

Distance

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Echoes

Past

Unknown Future

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

Existence

Precarious

Treasure

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

Important

Sun

Vanity

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

Children

Different

Taught

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

Nice

Self

Self Sufficient

I don’t think it had ever occurred to me that man’s supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain’s capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.

Book

Men

Thinking

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

Children

Heart

Self

I’m a reliable witness, you’re a reliable witness, practically all God’s children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation–which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.

Children

Different

Ideas

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Alive

Ambition

Ashamed

Book

Causes

Cells

Children

Clock

Comforting

Companionship

Deals

Democracy

Dependent

Differences

Different

Distance

Doe

Done

Echoes

Essentials

Evolution

Existence

Eye

Financial

Folly

Fool

Freak

Fuel

Happens

Heart

Hope

Humiliating

Ideas

Ifs

Imagine

Important

Islands

Knowing

Lazy

Machines

Mean

Men

Needs

Nice

Ocean

Of Context

Optimistic

Past

People

Planets

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Quotes by John Wyndham

John Wyndham

…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

I’m a reliable witness, you’re a reliable witness, practically all God’s children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation–which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.

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