Top 32 Robert Aickman Quotes
#1. No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.
Robert Aickman
#2. Dreams, Mrs. Sawyer, are misleading, because they make life seem real. When it loses the support of dreams, life dissolves.
Robert Aickman
#3. After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.
Robert Aickman
#4. A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.
Tony Abbott
#5. The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless
Robert Aickman
#6. 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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#7. You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.
Robert Aickman
#8. 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
Robert Aickman
#9. There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.
Robert Aickman
#10. 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.
Robert Aickman
#11. There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.
Robert Aickman
#12. Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.
Robert Aickman
#13. 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
Robert Aickman
#14. He felt the evidence showed that some metaphysical force had directed evolution at three different points: the beginning of life, the beginning of consciousness, and the beginning of civilized culture.
Julian Jaynes
#15. 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.
Robert Aickman
#16. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 1 John 3:14
Beth Moore
#17. Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
Robert Aickman
#18. More secrets are improperly disclosed from boredom than from any other motive;
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#19. And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.
Robert Aickman
#20. 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.
Robert Aickman
#21. Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.
Robert Aickman
#22. 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.
Robert Aickman
#23. It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely
Robert Aickman
#24. At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.
Robert Aickman
#25. It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
Harry Reid
#26. When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.
Robert Aickman
#27. Life, as we know it, could hardly continue if men did not soon slay the dreamer inside them
Robert Aickman
#29. 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.
Robert Aickman
#30. I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.
Rumi
#31. find the right words for your troubles, and your troubles become half-joys.
Robert Aickman
#32. 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.
Robert Aickman
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