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The Island of Dr. Moreau QUOTES

The Island of Dr. Moreau QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

2 " 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

3 " I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

4 " ...and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

5 " The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

6 " It is when suffering finds a voice and
sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

7 " I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

8 " 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

9 " For it is just this question of pain that parts
us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own
pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about
sin,—so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely
what an animal feels. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

10 " It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

11 " Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

12 " 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

13 " Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

14 " 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

15 " 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 , The Island of Dr. Moreau

16 " But, as I say, I was too
full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never
known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

17 " And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

18 " I hope, or I could not live. "

― H.G. Wells , The Island of Dr. Moreau

19 " 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

20 " 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