Cosmicism Quotes

“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.”

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

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

“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 universe is a thing of ultimate terror.”