Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Quotes
"I warn you that what you’re starting to read is full of loose ends and unanswered questions. It will not be neatly tied up at the end, everything resolved and satisfactorily explained."
"For me it began around six o’clock, a Thursday evening, October 28, 1976, when I let my last patient—a sprained thumb—out the side door of my office, with the feeling the day wasn’t over for me."
"I still make house calls, and so do plenty of others."
"I’d had an emergency appendectomy and no lunch that afternoon, and felt irritable."
"I’ve been practicing medicine in Mill Valley, California, for just over a year."
"Sometimes I think I’ve seen half of more movies than anyone else alive, and my mind is cluttered with vague, never-to-be-answered wonderings about how certain movies turned out, and how others began."
"But a doctor learns, because he has to, not to worry actively about patients until the worrying can do some good; meanwhile, they have to be walled off in a quiet compartment of the mind."
"I don’t claim a lot of experience with crying women, but in stories I read, the man always holds the woman close and lets her cry."
"The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing, but I’m not sure it will ever figure itself out."
"Down there in Mill Valley a week or ten days ago, someone formed a delusion; a member of his family was not what he seemed, but an impostor."
"The police knew they had a psychopath to find; a maniac, as the newspapers were calling him."
"Mass hysteria, auto-suggestion, whatever you want to call it—that’s what happened to Mattoon."
"These things are hard to believe till you see them, and even when you do see them."
"Hell, the Salem witch hunt, UFOs—they’re all part of this same amazing aspect of the human mind."
"The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer."
"We do prefer the weird and thrilling, as Mannie had said, to the dull and commonplace."
"The collapse of one of your little items: a one-inch retraction buried in the paper a day or so later."
"The body was real; that’s what’s bothering you, isn’t it, Jack?"
"You are just the same in every thought, memory, habit, and mannerism, right down to the last little atom of your bodies."
"The function of life is to live if it can, and no other motive can ever be allowed to interfere with that."
"Life takes whatever form it must: a monster forty feet high, with an immense neck, and weighing tons—call it a dinosaur. When conditions change, and the dinosaur is no longer possible, it is gone. But life isn’t; it’s still there, in a new form."
"Whatever you feel you may have observed, Doctor, you’re on the wrong tack. I know myself how easy it is, at times, to be carried away by a theory."
"It’s peaceful, it’s quiet. And food still tastes good, books are still good to read."
"The pods must fulfill their function, their reason for being."
"The truth is what I say. It did happen. The pods arrived, drifting onto our planet as they have onto others, and they performed, and are now performing their simple and natural function—which is to survive on this planet."
"The function of all life, everywhere—to survive."
"Once it was alive." (Referring to the moon)
"You look shocked, actually sick, and yet what has the human race done except spread over this planet till it swarms the globe several billion strong?"
"We had to think, be certain, and make sure of what we were doing—take the time to be right, and know we were right."
"The sense of sight is more subtle than we're accustomed to think; it sees more than we credit it for."
"Revelation is the word for a complex of thought revealing itself instantaneously with the enormous impact of absolute truth."
"We hadn’t, and couldn’t possibly have been—I saw this now—the only souls who had stumbled and blundered onto what had been happening in Mill Valley."
"We shall fight them in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
"You read these occasional queer little stories, humorously written, tongue-in-cheek, most of the time; or you have vague distorted rumors of them. And this much I know. Some of them—some of them—are true."