Author of quotes: John Wyndham

There are words that, in the mouth of a poet, can tell about the flickering haze of love, but in all other respects they are so clumsy, so inexpressive.

The main thing for a living person is life, the main thing in life is change, change is movement, we are inside this movement.

We could try to be ourselves and build this world - the world that is, and not the one that was and is gone.

I'm not disgraced, I'm just defeated.

If the day starts Sunday silence, and you know that it's Wednesday, so something is amiss.

In a sense, this idea is worse than the assumption of a blind rage of nature that hit us.

Speaking of thoughts, it is impossible to lie.

Now, not only poets come across much less frequently than nowadays, but women are much more excitable than and tend to go straight from dolls to babies.

Art loses a musician its worth only because he is personally not present?

In Russia, any man exists only to serve the state; if he opposes the state, he is a traitor, and the protection of the traitors, both from individuals and from groups, a duty of any society. So in this case biological debt coincides with the political. But you believe that the state exists to serve the individuals that comprise society. Therefore, your conscience will torture the thought of violating our "rights."

The classic form of the curse is infertility, but I cannot recall a single case that retaliation took the form of fertility.

The spirit is the life force; it is not static, it either develops or atrophies. We can say, the evolution of the spirit assumes the appearance of surguja. Now suppose that this great spirit, this sverdup, trying to get on stage. Where to dwell? An ordinary man is not fit to be his vessel; the Superman who could be it does not exist. So could he in the absence of a suitable single container to create a group of them - how was created the encyclopedia, becoming too voluminous for a single volume...

Do we think, will forgive us whether wolves or jackals, because we shoot? No. We think only about how to neutralize them faster. Our superiority is so complete that most of us have forgotten what it's like to fight with another species in person, myself. But when it comes to poverty, we do not feel regret; we do not give mercy and forgiveness, of course, do not ask.

- While you're young - he said knowingly, carefree, not thinking about the future, until life has something romantic. But, in our complex world this is not the best way of thinking.