--- title: "15 May Quotes By H. G. Wells" description: "15 May quotes by H. G. Wells. Plus more from H. G. Wells and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/h-g-wells-1122_apocalypse_how-small-the-vastest-of-human-catastrop_2815897.png" --- > [How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/how-small-the-vastest-of-human-catastrophes-may-seem-at-a-distance-of/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/h-g-wells-1122_apocalypse_how-small-the-vastest-of-human-catastrop_2815897.png) > [Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/nothing-remains-interesting-where-anything-may-happen/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/h-g-wells-1122_happen_nothing-remains-interesting-where-anythi_2132051.png) > [The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-establishment-of-the-world-community-will-surely-exact-a-price/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/h-g-wells-1122_blood_the-establishment-of-the-world-community_1937284.png) > [After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/after-people-have-repeated-a-phrase-a-great-number-of-times-they/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b2/h-g-wells-1122_may_after-people-have-repeated-a-phrase-a-gr_2274819.png) > [Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/human-society-is-based-on-want-life-is-based-on-want-wild-eyed/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee0/h-g-wells-1122_clouds_human-society-is-based-on-want-life-is-b_430723.png) > [We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/we-have-learned-now-that-we-cannot-regard-this-planet-as-being-fenced/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/182/h-g-wells-1122_abiding_we-have-learned-now-that-we-cannot-regar_2072513.png) > [Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/man-can-go-up-against-gravitation-in-a-balloon-and-why-should-he-not/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/240/h-g-wells-1122_able_man-can-go-up-against-gravitation-in-a-b_1143761.png) > [It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go…We are living in the end of the sovereign states…In the great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/it-is-the-system-of-nationalist-individualism-that-has-to-go-we-are/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12f/h-g-wells-1122_contemporary_it-is-the-system-of-nationalist-individu_611130.jpg) > [I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/i-felt-naked-i-felt-as-perhaps-a-bird-may-feel-in-the-clear-air/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17a/h-g-wells-1122_air_i-felt-naked-i-felt-as-perhaps-a-bird-ma_693518.jpg) > [This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/this-world-youth-movement-claims-to-represent-and-affect-the-politico/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/h-g-wells-1122_activity_this-world-youth-movement-claims-to-repr_1902844.png) > [Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/better-it-is-toward-the-right-conduct-of-life-to-consider-what-will/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/h-g-wells-1122_consideration_better-it-is-toward-the-right-conduct-of_1980996.png) > [If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-i-am-recalling-an-incident-very-vividly-i-go-back-to-the-instant/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bf/h-g-wells-1122_able_if-i-am-recalling-an-incident-very-vivid_1651468.png) > [If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-we-suppose-a-sufficient-righteousness-and-intelligence-in-men-to/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/687/h-g-wells-1122_bases_if-we-suppose-a-sufficient-righteousness_287637.jpg) > [... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/when-the-struggle-seems-to-be-drifting-definitely-towards-a-world/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d6/h-g-wells-1122_agenda-21_when-the-struggle-seems-to-be-drifting-d_633248.png) > [The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-great-body-of-physical-science-a-great-deal-of-the-essential-fact/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/357/h-g-wells-1122_able_the-great-body-of-physical-science-a-gre_2381970.png) ## Other authors on May ## More by H. G. Wells > [... life falls into place only with God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/life-falls-into-place-only-with-god/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/fools-make-researches-and-wise-men-exploit-them-that-is-our-earthly/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-true-sweetness-of-chess-if-it-ever-can-be-sweet-is-to-see-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-priest-is-a-man-vowed-trained-and-consecrated-a-man-belonging-to-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-man-who-raises-a-fist-has-run-out-of-ideas/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-choice-is-the-universe-or-nothing/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [ The crisis \[the Great Depression\] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-crisis-the-great-depression-discovered-a-great-man-in-franklin/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/non-violence-is-the-policy-of-the-vegetable-kingdom/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/for-all-my-desire-to-be-interesting-i-have-to-confess-that-for-most/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-jews-looked-for-a-special-savior-a-messiah-who-was-to-redeem/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/and-i-have-by-me-for-my-comfort-two-strange-white-flowers-shrivelled/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [ \[A novel by Henry James\] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church-lit-but-without-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/in-england-we-have-come-to-rely-upon-a-comfortable-time-lag-of-fifty/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [We must end war before war ends us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/we-must-end-war-before-war-ends-us/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/what-good-is-religion-if-it-collapses-under-calamity/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/h-g-wells/#itemlist", "name": "15 May Quotes By H. G. Wells", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "H. G. 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