“And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“But there’s one problem that you have to solve if you’re to go on profiting from books, and books won’t help you… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are. — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would. — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“...human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts.… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“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… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“...Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“Give up all the wild ideas that buzz round you like wasps. Or like bluebottles. […] Find a nice, ordinary girl, not too attractive… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.” — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
![“But there’s one problem that you have to solve if you’re to go on profiting from books, and books won’t help you much to solve it [,,,] The problem of finding someone, even one single person, you can endure life with. To me it’s acute.” quote by Robert Aickman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91b/robert-aickman-25472_books_but-there-s-one-problem-that-you-have-to_2933124.jpg)
![“Give up all the wild ideas that buzz round you like wasps. Or like bluebottles. […] Find a nice, ordinary girl, not too attractive or you’ll be jealous all the time, not too bright or you’ll be anxious all the time, not too rich or you’ll have nothing to strive for, not too original or she’ll…” quote by Robert Aickman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27e/robert-aickman-25472_quote_give-up-all-the-wild-ideas-that-buzz-rou_1626494.jpg)
