Perchance to Dream Quotes

“If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.”
― Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

“The city had grown, implacably, spreading its concrete and alloy fingers wider every day over the dark and feral country. Nothing could stop it. Mountains were stamped flat. Rivers were dammed off or drained or put elsewhere. The marshes were filled. The animals shot from the trees and then the trees cut down. And the big gray machines moved forward, gobbling up the jungle with their iron teeth, chewing it clean of its life and all its living things.
Until it was no more.
Leveled, smoothed as a highway is smoothed, its centuries choked beneath millions and millions of tons of hardened stone.
The birth of a city... It had become the death of a world.”
― Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

“I know that ghosts and demons did exist, they did, if only you thought about them long enough and hard enough.”
― Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

“Upon entering the hotel room and glancing at its occupant, Doctor Lenardi assumed that hearty, cheerful manner which is characteristic of all physicians once they have abandoned hope.”
― Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream

“Symbolism, to Carnaday, was superstitious nonsense. Psychiatry, though, was worse. It was the purest sort of buncombe, hardly as respectable as spiritualism.”
― Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

“And that's the whole point. The mind, Doctor. It's everything. If you think you have a pain in your arm and there's no physical reason for it, you don't hurt any less.”
― Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories