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“A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.” (The Island of Dr. Moreau Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“And I tell you, pleasure and pain have nothing to do with heaven and hell.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedily became natural an ordinary to me. I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.” (The Island of Dr. Moreau Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“There is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, but always I fall short of the things I dream.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
“You’re a solemn prig, Prendick, a silly ass! You’re always fearing and fancying. We’re on the edge of things. I’m bound to cut my throat tomorrow. I’m going to have a damned Bank Holiday tonight.”
H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr. Moreau
