Algernon H. Blackwood Quotes

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood

Beautiful, Evil, Place

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Algernon H. Blackwood

Heart, Important, Long

And so with all things: names were vital and important.
Algernon H. Blackwood

Important, Names, Vital

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
Algernon H. Blackwood

Good, Men, Alone

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
Algernon H. Blackwood

Life, True, Nothing

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