English author (1869-1951)
Unless the mind can fix the reality of an event in the actual instant of its happening, judgment soon dwindles into a confusion between memory and argument.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Wolves of God
For prudence is of the mind, but desire is of the soul, and while his brain of to-day whispered wariness, voices in his heart of long ago shouted commands that he knew he must obey with joy.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Pan's Garden
All dreams are but a single dream.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Wolves of God
The wise are silent, the foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Bright Messenger
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
"The Man Who Found Out"
An explanation of some kind was an absolute necessity, just as some working explanation of the universe is necessary--however absurd--to the happiness of every individual who seeks to do his duty in the world and face the problems of life.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Willows
This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Willows
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 BLACKWOOD
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
The acquirement of wealth demanded his entire strength, and all lighter considerations he had consistently refused to recognize, until he thought them dead.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
A Prisoner in Fairyland
The elements are always the true immortals.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Strange Stories
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 BLACKWOOD
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
We have tried all things, and found all wanting.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Four Weird Tales
One wakes up happy in the morning and sees only the bright side of things. Hope is active, and one has new courage somehow.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
A Prisoner in Fairyland
Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Four Weird Tales
Hate means strife, and the two together weave the robe that terror wears.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
"The Damned", Incredible Adventures
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 BLACKWOOD
Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood
The bleak splendors of these remote and lonely forests rather overwhelmed him with the sense of his own littleness. That stern quality of the tangled backwoods which can only be described as merciless and terrible, rose out of these far blue woods swimming upon the horizon, and revealed itself. He understood the silent warning. He realized his own utter helplessness.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Wendigo
But you see my main idea, don't you--that the sources of our life lie hid with beauty very very far away, and that our real, big, continuous life is spiritual--out of the body, as I shall call it. The waking-day life uses what it can bring over from this enormous under-running sea of universal consciousness where we're all together, splendid, free, untamed, and where thinking is creation and we feel and know each other face to face? See? Sympathy the great solvent? All linked together by thought as stars are by their rays. Ah! You get my idea--the great Network?
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
A Prisoner in Fairyland
The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
The Willows