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 memo…

- Algernon Blackwood

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

- Algernon Blackwood

To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, t…

- 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…

- 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 haunte…

- Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

- 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

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appeara…

- 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