48 Quotes by Robert Aickman

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

Those who deem this either weak of me or incredible are invited to find themselves in a like situation.

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

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

Life, as we know it, could hardly continue if men did not soon slay the dreamer inside them.

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.

Everything to do with time is hideous.

Elmo found, as have many, that the death of the heart corrupted the pen into writing a farrago of horrors and insanities, not necessarily the less true for their seeming extravagance, but inaccessible for the most part to the prudent.

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.