16 Quotes by William Hope Hodgson

I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

وقد كانت الصدفة، حين استيقظتْ على ذكرى كتابٍ قرأتْه في السنوات الأولى، لكنها لم تفهمْ ما به من كلام؛ إذ أنه كتابٌ قديمٌ كُتِبَ بطريقة قديمة. ذلك الكتاب كان يعرض قصة الحب بين رجل وخادمة يُطلق عليها (ميرداث). وهكذا، لأنها كانت على وعيٍ شاملٍ ومعرفةٍ بتلك العصور المعروفة بـ عصور الصمت، فقد قرأتْ ذلك الكتاب مرات عديدة، فازداد رونقُ القصةِ جمالًا بسبب ما فيه من حب عميق.

...the history of all love is writ with one pen.

And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.

The immutable, awful quiet of a dying world.

And oft I harked into the night of the Land; but there was nowhere any sound, or disturbing of the aether, to trouble me.

I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things ‘on principle,’ as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.