Quotes from H.P. Lovecraft

To hint to unimaginative people of a horror beyond all human conception—a horror of houses and blocks and cities leprous and cancerous with evil dragged from elder worlds—would be merely to invite a padded cell instead of restful rustication, and Malone was a man of sense despite his mysticism.

They could not eat the things and animals of earth, but brought their own food from the stars.

dark hints of strange, small, and terrible hidden races of troglodytes and burrowers.

El miedo es una de las emociones más antiguas y poderosas de la humanidad, y el miedo más antiguo y poderoso es el temor a lo desconocido

A crack formed and enlarged, and the whole door gave way—but from the other side; whence poured a howling tumult of ice-cold wind with all the stenches of the bottomless pit, and whence reached a sucking force not of earth or heaven, which, coiling sentiently about the paralysed detective, dragged him through the aperture and down unmeasured spaces filled with whispers and wails, and gusts of mocking laughter.

Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meagre iron bed.

s? fii con?tient c? exi?ti ?i totu?i s? ?tii c? nu mai e?ti o fiin?? delimitat? distinct de celelalte fiin?e ... este culmea de nespus a spaimei ?i a agoniei.

I hurried back before sunset to my hotel, unwilling to have the stars come out above me in the open; and the next day returned to Boston to give up my position. I could not go into that dim chaos of old forest and slope again, or face another time that grey blasted heath where the black well yawned deep beside the tumbled bricks and stones.

After all, the strangest and maddest of myths are often merely symbols or allegories based upon truth...

Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind

el encaprichamiento se crece con las críticas.

The colour, which resembled some of the bands in the meteor's strange spectrum, was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all. Its texture was glossy, and upon tapping it appeared to promise both brittleness and hollowness.

Ama mistiklerin gördüÄŸü düÅŸlerin dünyan?n ac?mas?z ak?lc?l??? kar??s?nda ne a??rl??? olabilirdi ki?

for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures

Whilst they strove to strip from life its embroidered robes of myth, and to shew in naked ugliness the foul thing that is reality, Kuranes sought for beauty alone.

Quick to connect events, he declared that the meteorite had poisoned the soil, and thanked heaven that most of the other crops were in the upland lot along the road.

My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyse, and annihilate me.

Nahum himself gave the most definite statement of anyone when he said he was disturbed about certain footprints in the snow. They were the usual winter prints of red squirrels, white rabbits, and foxes, but the brooding farmer professed to see something not quite right about their nature and arrangement.

There were creakings, scurryings, and hoarse doubtful noises; and I thought uncomfortably about the hidden tunnels suggested by the grocery boy.

Al fin puede admitir voluntariamente que los deseos, esperanza y valores de la humanidad son asuntos del todo irrelevantes frente a a la ciega maquinaria cósmica. Considera la felicidad como un fantasma ético cuyo simulacro no alcanza a nadie de forma completa e incluso de refilón a muy pocos y cuya posición como objetivo de todos los esfuerzos humanos es una mezcla grotesca de farsa y tragedia.

The man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic visions, though described in a barbarous disjointed jargon, were assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could conceive.

Our fathers were both rude and bold, And would not live like brothers; But we are of a finer mould - We're much more like our mothers!

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound-and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

But although They no longer lived, They would never really die. They all lay in stone houses in Their great city of R'lyeh, preserved by the spells of mighty Cthulhu for a glorious resurrection when the stars and the earth might once more be ready for Them.