William Hope Hodgson Quotes

#1. By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.

William Hope Hodgson

#2. ...the history of all love is writ with one pen.

William Hope Hodgson

#3. I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

William Hope Hodgson

#4. And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.

William Hope Hodgson

#5. I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

William Hope Hodgson

#6. The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

William Hope Hodgson