Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEReality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNEAnything you can imagine you can make real.
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEI wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
JULES VERNEThe chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
JULES VERNESolitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
JULES VERNEIf there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
JULES VERNEIn the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEAll great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
JULES VERNEI believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
JULES VERNEI am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
JULES VERNEAll that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
JULES VERNELiberty is worth paying for.
JULES VERNEIn presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
JULES VERNEThe sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNE