"The Day of the Triffids" Quotes
A man wakes up to find the world in chaos after a meteor shower blinds most of the population and deadly plants called Triffids take advantage of the situation.
science fiction | 228 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them.
It’s not necessary that people be bad in order to be a problem.
The only way you can be sure of not being stung is to be so dull that you aren’t worth stinging.
Any one who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
It’s a good deal better to be guilty of making a few slips in a good cause than to be impeccable in a bad one.
Civilization is a device for holding barbarism at bay; that’s all.
Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain; a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats, humiliations, and despairs—the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity.
The beginning of survival is the determination to survive.
It is only when warned of danger that we are not frightened.
