Robert Aickman quotes

“When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.”
-- Robert Aickman

Source : Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”

#Difficult Quotes #Madmen Quotes #Sane Quotes

“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”
-- Robert Aickman

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber

#Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes #Making Time Quotes

“It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely”
-- Robert Aickman

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.16, Faber & Faber

#People Quotes #Waste Quotes #Strange Quotes

“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”
-- Robert Aickman

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.201, Faber & Faber

#Purpose Quotes #Kind Quotes #All Kinds Quotes

“Everything to do with time is hideous.”
-- Robert Aickman

Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “Cold Hand in Mine”, p.203, Faber & Faber

“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, ***** mechanicus instead of ***** sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”
-- Robert Aickman

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.”

Source : "American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier".

“Politics is more difficult than physics.”

“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”

“It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.”

“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”

“He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.”

Source : Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.13, Univ of California Press

“The fellow is either a madman or a poet.”

“It's not easy being the sane one!”

“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”