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“After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.” (When the Sleeper Wakes Quotes)
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed the collapse of supernatural religion in the minds of ignoble man, the decline of public honor, the ascendency of wealth. For men who had lost their belief in God had still kept their faith in property, and wealth ruled a venial world.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“As if there wasn’t a thousand things that were never heard.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“Fact takes no heed of human hopes.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“His was darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation, a dreamless inanition, a vast space of peace.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man’s tribute to unconquered nature.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth. On your behalf.”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
“You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady”
H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes
