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H. G. Wells1866–1946

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

H. G. Wells on emotion

The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter VII

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