94 Quotes by John Wyndham

Odd, don’t you think? We could drown a litter of kittens that is no sort of threat to us – but these creatures we shall carefully rear.

It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here” – that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

You are judging by social rules and finding crime. I am considering an elemental struggle, and finding no crime – just grim, primeval danger.

All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash.

The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital.

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.

And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It was some little time later that the first one picked up its roots and walked.

La vida, en todas sus manifestaciones, es conflicto.

You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain.