# Plan for Chaos

- Author: [John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md)
- Quotes: 15
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos

## Quotes

> To sleep in peace, and resume a nightmare when one wakes, is a highly undesirable reversal of the natural order.

p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/to-sleep-in-peace.md)

> "I see death as the worm's opportunity. It is defeat. You can dress it as you like, with drama, or glory, or pomposity, and perhaps deceive yourself for the critical moment - but, nevertheless, the same worm comes - it is defeat..."

p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/i-see-death.md)

> It's all pretty simple if you don't give a damn who gets hurt in the rush.

p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/its-all-pretty.md)

> "Dying," observed the doctor, "is such a very ordinary thing to do."

p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/dying-observed-the.md)

> "Was she a bit mad?"
>
> "Mad? Oh, no - unless you would call a failure to grow up a kind of madness - in which case there would be very few sane people."

p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/was-she-a-bit.md)

> One man's trash is another's souvenir.

p. 61 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/one-mans-trash.md)

> You can half-expect things. Try to face them in advance, case-harden your mind, you think - but when they come, it's always different.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/you-can-half-expect.md)

> I'd begun to grasp the principle that the less anybody knows, the less any squealer can give away. And it was easy to see that in a place where questioning was liable to assume the aspect of a blood-sport, the less one did know about other people's business, the better.

p. 151 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/id-begun-to-grasp.md)

> Primitive man would see every one of us as a magician.

p. 58 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/primitive-man-would.md)

> Practically everyone there had had an air of brooding privately with differing intensity. I knew now what it had reminded me of - the outpatients department of a hospital.

p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/practically-everyone-there.md)

> There is a sense of reason's fingernails scrabbling to keep their hold, as one slides towards something which is not accountable; not, by ordinary standards, quite sane...

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/there-is-a-sense.md)

> I suppose we all have a number of carefully furnished, non-communicating rooms in our minds.

p. 121 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/i-suppose-we-all.md)

> On the principle that if you walk briskly with an air of purpose ninety-nine per cent of the people you meet will assume it is a proper purpose, I did just that.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/on-the-principle.md)

> "The thing is to play your own game - not let the other feller force you to what he wants."

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/the-thing-is-to-play.md)

> There is a degree of odds against which a gambler becomes just another mug.

p. 84 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/plan-for-chaos/there-is-a-degree.md)