The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Quotes

“There is no credulity more blind, no ignorance more childish, that that of the sage who tries to measure “heaven and earth and the things under the earth”, with the small two-foot rule of his own brains. The”
― Alastair Gunn, The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1

“I have ceased to blame myself or others. Whatever was, being past, was right to be, and could not have been otherwise.”
― Alastair Gunn, The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1

“These words, and the tone in which they were spoken, fixed themselves on my mind — first, from gratitude, not unmingled with regret, as if I had not been so considerate to her as she to me; afterwards — But we often err, my dear, in dwelling too much on that word. We finite creatures have only to deal with ‘now’ — nothing whatever to do with ‘afterwards’.”
― Alastair Gunn, The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1

“for I feared them — I knew no good could be about them, with their grey hard faces, and their dreamy eyes, looking back into the ghastly years that were gone.”
― Alastair Gunn, The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 1