Quotes by John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

Explore a curated collection of 8 quotes by John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being bo — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful foll — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books wo — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at. — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Until then I had always thought of loneliness as something negative—an absence of company, and, of course, something tem — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite ar — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen he — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids