Algernon Blackwood Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : "The Bright Messenger: Blackwood Collections".
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“The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “The Wolves of God: Blackwood Collections”, p.146, 谷月社
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“It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow
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“And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.”
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“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Algernon Blackwood: Premium 11 Novels Collection (Jimbo, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Human Chord, The Centaur, The Promise of Air, The Garden of Survival, The Bright Messenger and more)”, p.718, e-artnow
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“My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2834, Delphi Classics
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“Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.4, The Floating Press
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“But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow
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“I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2910, Delphi Classics
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“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation
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“The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories – Ultimate Horror Classics Collection: From one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories, known for The Willows, The Wendigo, Jimbo, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, John Silence, The Listener and Other Stories…”, p.43, e-artnow
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“No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “JOHN SILENCE SERIES – Complete Collection: A Psychical Invasion + Ancient Sorceries + The Nemesis of Fire + Secret Worship + The Camp of the Dog + A Victim of Higher Space: Supernatural mysteries of Dr. John Silence”, p.61, e-artnow
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“Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.1989, Delphi Classics
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“To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Three John Silence Stories”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
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“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.120, The Floating Press
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