94 Quotes by John Wyndham

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital

Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that.

... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructively in large units. They aspired greedily, and then refused to face the responsibilities they had created. They created vast problems, and then buried their heads in the sands of idle faith.

I'm not bigoted enough to twist facts to suit what I've been taught.

I'm not bigoted enough to twist the facts to suit what I've been taught.

Como la mente no tiene masa, no utiliza tiempo en desplazarse.

The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are part of it.The static, the enemy of change, is the enemy of life, and therefore our implacable enemy.

You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.