Arthur Machen Quotes

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.

The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.

Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

Sometimes, like we all do, I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I cry. Like a really hard cry like you just watch yourself cry but then you're done and you're just glowing and you're staring at yourself.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

How would you like to feel the way she looks?

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

People are more than just the way they look.

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

The way you look on the outside has a definite bearing on how you feel and see yourself on the inside.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella