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7 quotes by Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen Machen circa 1905 Born Arthur Llewellyn Jones (1863-03-03)3 March 1863 Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales Died 15 December 1947(1947-12-15) (aged 84) Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England Occupation Short story writer, novelist, journalist, actor Genre Horror, fantasy, supernatural fiction, weird fiction Signature Arthur Machen (/ˈmækən/; 3 March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th...
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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams... →

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a... →

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

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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very... →

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For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

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Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing... →

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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

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