John Wyndham quotes

John Wyndham was a British science fiction writer, best known for his novels about post-apocalyptic worlds and extraordinary phenomena. His works, such as "The Day of the Triffids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos," gained wide popularity for their imaginative storytelling and social commentary. He influenced generations of readers and writers with his thought-provoking visions of the future. Here are 21 of his quotes:

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

John Wyndham

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

John Wyndham

And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

John Wyndham

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

John Wyndham

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

John Wyndham

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

John Wyndham

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten.

John Wyndham

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

John Wyndham

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

John Wyndham

Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.

John Wyndham

The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.

John Wyndham

Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.

John Wyndham

The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.

John Wyndham

Cruelty is as old as life itself.

John Wyndham

The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.

John Wyndham

We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.

John Wyndham

You can't drive a flock of sheep to market in a dead straight line, but there are ways of getting 'em there.

John Wyndham

You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to.

John Wyndham