“The water would shoot in like a jet of iron. Have you ever felt a straight jet of high pressure water? It would hit as hard as a bullet. It would simply smash him and flatten him. It would tear down his throat, and into his lungs; it would blow in his ears-" "What a detailed imagination you have," protested Steevens, who saw things vividly. "It's a simple statement of the inevitable," said the lieutenant.” SimpleInevitableStatement Author:H.G.Wells
“It may be-indeed to my mind it seems just-that, when our life has closed, when evil or good is no longer a choice for us, we may still have to witness the working out of the train of consequences we have laid. If human souls continue after death, then surely human interests continue after death. But that is merely my own guess at the meaning of the things seen” LifeDeathHumanityHumanAfterlifeConsequencesLifeafterdeath Author:H.G.Wells
“But it shows you, don't it?"-his eye went down to the tankard again,-"it shows you,too, how we poor human beings fail to understand one another.” HumansUnderstandingHuman Author:H.G.Wells
“Men are killed outright in the reserves sometimes, while others who have been left for dead in the thickest corner crawl out and survive” MenLifeSurvive Author:H.G.Wells
“Consequently people think that there is a class or order somewhere just above them or just below them, or a country or place somewhere that is really safe and happy... The fact is, that Society is one body, and it is either well or ill. That is the law.” OrderClassSocietySafetyHappynessKips Author:H.G.Wells