Top 50 Algernon Blackwood Quotes
#1. And, with the dark, the Forest came up boldly and pressed against the very walls and windows, peering in upon them, joining hands above the slates and chimneys.
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#2. It was clear, however, that the woman had in herself some secret source of joy, that she was now an aggressive, positive force, sure of herself, and apparently afraid of nothing in heaven or hell.
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#3. Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire!
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#4. For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor.
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#5. The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection.
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#6. It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
("The Wendigo")
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#7. his thoughts dwelt upon the past rather than upon the future; that he read much history, and felt specially drawn to certain periods whose spirit he understood instinctively as though he had lived in them;
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#8. You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world of his own, apart, and believes that one day he'll come across, either in a book or in a person, the Priest who shall make it clear to him.
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#9. Overhead, between the tips of the highest firs, he saw the first stars peeping, and the sky was a clean, pale amethyst that seemed exactly the colour all these memories clothed themselves with in his mind.
- Secret Worship
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#10. She had dreamed that she lay beneath a spreading tree somewhere, a tree that whispered with ten thousand soft lips of green; and the dream continued for a moment even after waking.
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#11. Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone.
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#12. He was a man in whom the dreams of God that haunt the soul in youth, though overlaid by the scum that gathers in the fight for money, had not, as with the majority, utterly died the death.
- Secret Worship
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#14. But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#15. And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.
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#16. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
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#18. I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
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#19. He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.
("The Wendigo")
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#20. The Forest bellowed out its victory to the winds; the winds in turn proclaimed it to the Night.
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#21. The Wendigo is simply the Call of the Wild personified, which some natures hear to their own destruction.
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#25. The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
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#26. For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control.
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#27. The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected.
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#28. 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?
Algernon H. Blackwood
#29. They talked trees from morning till night. It stirred in her the old subconscious trail of dread, a trail that led ever into the darkness of big woods; and such feelings, as her early evangelical training taught her, were temptings. To regard them in any other way was to play with danger.
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#30. Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.
("The Wendigo")
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#32. It is, of course, extremely interesting to look back across the years questioningly, wonderingly, objectively, without detachments, though seeing "objectively" does not necessarily imply seeing truthfully.
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#33. A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
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#34. I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
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#35. No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.
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#36. For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud. What
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#37. And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#38. And soon after he slept, the change of wind he had divined stirred gently the reflection of the stars within the lake.
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#39. My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
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#40. Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.
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#41. I wish I were not quite so lonely - and so poor. And yet I love both my loneliness and my poverty. The former makes me appreciate the companionship of the wind and rain, while the latter preserves my liver and prevents me wasting time in dancing attendance upon women.
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#42. The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.
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#43. His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
Algernon H. Blackwood
#45. It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
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#46. No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.
("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")
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#49. What is Reality, in the last resort," he asked, "but the thing a man's vision brings to him--to believe? There's no other criterion. The criticism of opposite types of mind is merely a confession of their own limitations." Being
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#50. because what one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.
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