96 Quotes by Algernon Blackwood

The situation called for a courage and calmness of reasoning that neither of us could compass, and I have never before seen so clearly conscious of two persons in me-the one that explained everything, and the other that laughed at such foolish explanations, yet was horribly afraid.

Our only chance is to keep perfectly still. Our insignificance perhaps may save us.

We must keep our minds quiet-it’s our minds they feel.

I forgot the shaking of the willows in the windless calm, the humming overhead, everything except that I was waiting for an answer that I dreaded more than I can possibly explain.

Do not menion them more than you help. Do not refer to them by name. To name is to reveal; it is the inevitable clue, and our only hope lies in ignoring them, in order that they may ignore us.

Our thoughts make spirals in their world.

It’s the willows themselves humming, because here the willows have been made symbols of the forces that are against us.

They have put it into my mind; try your hardest to prevent their putting it into yours.

I was conscious only of a sort of enveloping sensation of icy fear that plucked the nerves out of their fleshly covering, twisted them this way and that, and replaced them quivering.