Algernon Blackwood quotes

Algernon Blackwood was an English writer renowned for his supernatural and horror stories. Many of his works explore mysterious forces and the unknown, often blending adventure with psychological intrigue. He became one of the most influential figures in early twentieth-century weird fiction. Here are 10 of his quotes:

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray. (Algernon Blackwood)

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

Algernon Blackwood

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 Blackwood

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 Blackwood

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 Blackwood

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.

Algernon Blackwood

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed.

Algernon Blackwood

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.

Algernon Blackwood

And so with all things: names were vital and important.

Algernon Blackwood

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 Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: March 14, 1869
Died: December 10, 1951
Quotes count: 10

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