Top 6 Quotes by Robert Aickman

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

Robert Aickman

Difficult, Madmen, Sane

Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

Robert Aickman

People, Waste, Strange

Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.16, Faber & Faber

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

Robert Aickman

Firsts, Steps, Making Time

Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.

Robert Aickman

Men, World, Machines