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“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers – shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle – to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.” (The Time Machine Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the same silver river running between its fertile banks.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived. And now came the reaction of the altered conditions.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.” (The Time Machine Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it.” (The Time Machine Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“We are always getting away from the present moment.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. ”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness. The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset. Well, that night the expectation took the colour of my fears.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
“You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.”
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
