H. P. Lovecraft

“I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.”

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”

“From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.”

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”

“It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.”

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”

“I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable.”

“Toil without song is a weary journey.”

“The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature.”

“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth.”

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him is what he is.”

“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”

“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.”