John Wyndham Quotes

It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.

But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

Darling, whose book is this to be?"

"Ostensibly yours, my sweet"

"I see - rather like my life since I met you?"

"Yes darling

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall - but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.