Top 7 William Hope Hodgson Quotes (2025 Update)

William Hope Hodgson Quote: “And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.”

1. “And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.”

William Hope Hodgson Quote: “The immutable, awful quiet of a dying world.”

2. “The immutable, awful quiet of a dying world.”

3. “And oft I harked into the night of the Land; but there was nowhere any sound, or disturbing of the aether, to trouble me.”

— William Hope Hodgson

4. “I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things ‘on principle,’ as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.”

— William Hope Hodgson

5. “To my right, which was to the North, there stood, very far away, the House of Silence, upon a low hill. And in that House were many lights, and no sound. And so had it been through an uncountable Eternity of Years.”

— William Hope Hodgson

6. “And, so to tell more about the South Watcher. A million years gone, as I have told, came it out from the blackness of the South, and grew steadily nearer through twenty thousand years; but so slow that in no one year could a man perceive that it had moved.”

— William Hope Hodgson

7. “The inner story must be uncovered, personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire.”

— William Hope Hodgson

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