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“A few minutes before, there had only been three real things before me–the immensity of the night and space and nature, my own feebleness and anguish, and the near approach of death.” (The War of the Worlds Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“At times I suffered from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me. I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“Every soul aboard stood at the bulwarks or on the seats of the steamer and stared at that distant shape, higher than the trees or church towers inland, and advancing with a leisurely parody of a human stride.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“I did not know it, but that was the last civilised dinner I was to eat for very many strange and terrible days.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.” (The War of the Worlds Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as they did.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“It spread up the sides of the pit by the third or fourth day of our imprisonment, and its cactus-like branches formed a carmine fringe to the edges of our triangular window.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of wagons, and the staccato of hoofs.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“They haven’t any spirit in them – no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn’t one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.” (The War of the Worlds Quotes)
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“This isn’t a war,” said the artilleryman. “It never was a war, any more than there’s war between man and ants.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“We can’t have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“We should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
“Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
