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… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
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… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“But he survived, that radio announcer. His ship and five others out of the flotilla of ten came through, a bit radioactive, but otherwise… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“You will have experienced, perhaps, that feeling of being relieved of a weight that you had not properly realized was there?” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“We have both been given the same wish to survive, We are all, you see, toys of the life-force. It made you numerically stronger,… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to.” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“Sophie dear,' I said. 'Are you in love with him - with this spider-man?' 'Oh, don't call him that - please - we can't… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
