The Passionate Friends Quotes

“What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.”
― H.G. Wells, The Passionate Friends

“Upon the forehead of humanity
all its more ponderous and
bulky worth is friendship …
But at the tip top, there hangs
by unseen film an orbed drop of light.
—And that is love.

— David Lean, Eric Ambler, & Stanley Haynes, from the screenplay Passionate Friends, based on the novel by H.G. Wells (General Films, 1949)”
― H.G. Wells, The Passionate Friends

“And in friendship and still more here, in this central business of love, accident rules it seems to me almost altogether. What personalities you will encounter in life, and have for a chief interest in life, is nearly as much a matter of chance as the drift of a grain of pollen in the pine forest. And once the light hazard has blown it has blown, never to drive again.”
― H.G. Wells, The Passionate Friends