Arthur Machen Quotes

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time an...

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, str...

He remembered an old tale which his father was fond of telling him—the story of Eos Amherawdur (the ...

So at last Ilar Sant came to this wood, which people now call St. Hilary's wood because they have fo...

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department ...

Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him ...

We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know th...

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, ...

Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found ver...

He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven...

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an un...

I dream in fire but work in clay.

I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremel...