Benighted

“A grey tide, engulfing all colour and shape of things that had been or were to be, rushed across his mind, sweeping the life out of everything and leaving him all hollow inside. Once again he sat benumbed in a shadow show. Yet as ever”

— J. B. Priestley

“The trouble is that we can’t trust life, and in order to keep going with it at all, we have to be for ever watching it and patching it up.””

— J. B. Priestley

“Gin is saddening,' Penderel admitted, 'but it's not so saddening as no gin.””

— J. B. Priestley

“People wonder what's the matter with the world these days. They forget that all the best fellows, the men who'd have been in their prime now, who'd have been giving us a lead in everything, are dead [in the Great War]. If you could bring 'em all back... hundreds and hundreds of thousands of 'em, you'd soon see the difference they'd make in the place. But they're dead, and a lot of people, very different sort of people, are alive and kicking.””

— J. B. Priestley