All Arthur Machen Quotes
- Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the… Big
- For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced. Consequence
- Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace… Beauty
- If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in… Boots
- It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any… All
- It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand… Allowed
- Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has… Aware
- The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats… Brief
- For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to… Assure
- Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. Branch
- It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. Attempting
- In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star. Every Grain
- And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say,… Among
- I dream in fire but work in clay. Clay
- We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that… Avoid
- There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper. Corners
- Old stories often turn out to be true. Inspirational
- There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a… Awful
- silence is not weakness and decency is not pride Decency
- We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am… Black
- Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing… Accepted
- Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its sourceFor, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there… Branch