H. G. Wells Quotes

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

We fear that which we cannot see.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

How little we know of what there is to know.

It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.

The truth is always an abyss.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.

Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc says it's fine, nothing to worry about. Why dwell on it? But some people, they just can't let it go... Some people drink themselves out of school trying to find it again, trolling through bars where the shadows are so greasy they leave trails on the walls, just to find a way in, a way through. Some people forget too that you're supposed to stop sleeping, you're supposed to have a life in the sun.