Dark Entries Quotes

“Things only exist as long as you see them. And we are all of us nothing but the sum of our moods.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“Confidences pre-announced are seldom worth while.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“She put her arms round him and kissed him. The kiss remained always with him, an agony in the mind: for then the two of them at last met and recognised one another. Later he supposed that this was indeed a moment's perfect happiness for him; but at the time the thought did not occur. Everything but the sea was dark and quiet and timeless. Thought and feeling had stopped and they were immortal. The moment was immortal.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“And as their love had begun a little before a quotation, so it ended a little after one.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries

“Distraught as I was, I now realised that the scrabbling sound was connected with the tearing to pieces of Dr Tessler’s books. But it was the wheezy, throaty cry of the creature which most turned my heart and sinews to water. Or to steel.”
― Robert Aickman, Dark Entries