Top 27 Robert Aickman Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.

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#4. You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.

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#5. Confidences pre-announced are seldom worth while.

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

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

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#8. At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

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#9. It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

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#10. 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.

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#11. Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.

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#12. 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.

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#13. And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.

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#14. More secrets are improperly disclosed from boredom than from any other motive;

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

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#16. We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.

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#17. Human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts. - Ravissante

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#18. Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.

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#22. One of my deep thoughts was that it is not so much particular disasters that make people cry, but something always there in life itself, something that a light falls on when we are trying to enjoy ourselves

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#23. You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.

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#24. It is amazing how full a life a man can lead without for one moment being alive at all, except sometimes when sleeping.

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

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

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#27. Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.

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