94 Quotes by John Wyndham

Why should I? I’ve done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed – I am only beaten.

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive – yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk – the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city – which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was.

My protective coloration isn’t intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

Don’t you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?

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

What we do with the product of genius is first of all ram it down to the lowest common denominator and then multiply it by the vulgarest possible fraction. -from “Pawley’s Peepholes.

It’s humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it’s still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.