Quote

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

H. G. Wells

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Historian
Idist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
Bromley
London
Wells
Herbert George
Herbert George Wells
H.G. Wells
Made
Despair
Persuasion
Time
Limits
Practically
Life
Capable
Daring
Longer
Terrified
Lost
Limit
Felt
Passed
Anything
Miserable
Much
Terror

More quotes by H. G. Wells

Image
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
H. G. Wells
Image
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.
H. G. Wells
Image
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.
H. G. Wells
Image
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
H. G. Wells
Image
...fact takes no heed of human hopes.
H. G. Wells
Image
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
H. G. Wells
Image
Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.
H. G. Wells
Image
The fact is, the Time Traveller 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
Image
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
H. G. Wells
Image
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
H. G. Wells
Image
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
H. G. Wells
Image
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
H. G. Wells
Image
The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.
H. G. Wells
Image
Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
H. G. Wells
Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H. G. Wells
Image
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.
H. G. Wells
Image
Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.
H. G. Wells
Image
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
Image
Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.
H. G. Wells
Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.
H. G. Wells