Algernon Blackwood quotes

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. (Algernon Blackwood)
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
Algernon Blackwood
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
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 Blackwood
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.
Algernon Blackwood
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 Blackwood
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed.
Algernon Blackwood
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
And so with all things: names were vital and important.
Algernon Blackwood
His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
Algernon Blackwood