48 Quotes by Robert Aickman

Thus reinforced, they spent the noonday hours spinning dreams like cobwebs, and dodging demands like nets.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

Dreams, [...], are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

There’s something wrong… There’s something wrong with almost everything.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

You're an artist, Mel. You can't expect to be a success at the same time.' She was warming her white hands. I was not sure that I was an artist, but it was nice to be told.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.