96 Quotes by Algernon Blackwood

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.

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?

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

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.

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.

All his life he had realised that his senses brought to him merely a more or less interesting set of sham appearances; that space, as men measure it, was utterly misleading; that time, as the clock ticked it in a succession of minutes, was arbitrary nonsense; and, in fact, that all his sensory perceptions were but a clumsy representation of real things behind the curtain – things he was for ever trying to get at, and that sometimes he actually did get at.