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John Wyndham Quotes - Page 2

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

John Wyndham
Causes, Deals
John Wyndham (2010). “The Chrysalids”, p.23, Penguin UK

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

John Wyndham
Freak, Companionship, Reason

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?

John Wyndham
Vanity, Important, Sun

I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.

John Wyndham
Children, Ideas, Different
John Wyndham (1953). “Out of the Deeps”

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.

John Wyndham
Children, Heart, Self
"The chrysalids".

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