William Hope Hodgson Quotes (11 quotes)

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William Hope Hodgson

The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson

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“And, as doth be human, I brake my rule straightway in the beginning.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 7

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

William Hope Hodgson

“We truly to think that the world doth even now be old; and this to have seemed a true thing unto every age that ever did live.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 13

“And truly, I to hope that I have made this thing somewise clear unto you; for, indeed, it doth be something hard to set out; for every Age hath the subtleties peculiar to that Age; and these to be hard to the understanding of other Ages, but yet to seem plain and utter natural, even without thought, unto the Peoples of the Age.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 13

“And mayhap there to be no mystery in the thing; but a score of natural explainings, if that I did know, or had patience to think long enough upon such.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 13

“And I to have gained Honour; yet to have learned that Honour doth be but as the ash of Life, if that you not to have Love. And I to have Love. And to have Love is to have all; for that which doth be truly LOVE doth mother Honour and Faithfulness; and they three to build the House of Joy.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 17 (closing words)

William Hope Hodgson Quotes

“Yet, even did it be ever proved that Man once to be a fish, I to have no cause to abate the first part of mine argument; but to have the more need of the thought, that I gain power to accept the Fact; for I still then to have no occasion that I think Man to have been truly a Fish, or aught truly different from a Man; but only that he did be once Modified physically to his need, and to be still possessed of the Man-Spirit, though all lackt of development. Yet, truly, I to be less offend in my Reason, if that it be shown that Man did be ever somewise in his present shape, though mayhap so brutish as the Humpt Men; but yet I do be ready to consider all matters, and do build no Walls about my Reason. Yet, neither I to have an over-ready acceptance of aught, but to need that my Reason shall approve.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 15

“I saw many creatures that went about the fire, and did have warmth from the fire and drink from the spring; and surely I did ponder that the Peoples of this our Age should say, if they had stood with me, that Providence had made nigh together the warmth and the drink that were needful unto life (for it was grown to a bitter chill now in the Gorge). But rather did this thing seem to me otherwise, that these creatures did be but of their circumstance, and if that it had been another way, then had they grown of their wits to meet it to their means of life. Yet, as some would say, the arguments do but meet, and be the same thing.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 9

“And lo! the creature did work slow in the brain.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 11

“And, surely, this doth seem but a sane thinking unto me; but yet without proof, and to be said to you, only as the shapings of my thoughts.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 11

“And this doth show how a man may act foolishly, even when he doth believe that he hath a great caution; and surely it is borne in upon me afresh that none should trust over freely unto unproven matters, the which shall you heartily agree with; but yet do as foolishly, according to your lights and characters. And so shall you laugh not over hardly upon me.”

William Hope Hodgson book The Night Land

Source: The Night Land (1912), Chapter 7

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