Arthur Machen Quotes

I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

Some things are better left buried and forgotten.

The werewolf film is a strange thing.

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

Facts can obscure the truth.

There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.

That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

Love makes a person do strange things.

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

Love makes you do strange things.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.