Quotes From "The Island Of Dr Moreau" By H.G. Wells

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

There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, andnot in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever ismore than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or Icould not live. H.G. Wells

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

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. H.G. Wells

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. H.G. Wells

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice H.G. Wells

For it is just this question of pain that partsus. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your ownpains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions aboutsin, –so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurelywhat an animal feels. H.G. Wells

It's chance, I tell you, ' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life. H.G. Wells

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

One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness. H.G. Wells

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man. H.G. Wells

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

By this time I was nolonger very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed thelimit 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

But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die. H.G. Wells

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx. H.G. Wells