Quotes from H.P. Lovecraft

Befragt die Geringeren, auf daß nicht die Größeren Euch antworten und mehr heraufbeschwören, als Ihr vermöget

La puerta de piedra, tan pesada como imponente, cuelga de oxidados goznes de hierro, y se ofrece entornada de un modo sorprendente y siniestro, merced a gruesas cadenas y grandes candados, siguiendo un rudo hábito de hace medio siglo.

bhole whose form no man might see.

Nichtsdestotrotz habet Ihr starke Hände, ein Messer und eine Pistole, und es ist nicht schwer, ein Grab zu schaufeln.

Las estrellas eran otra vez favorables, y lo que un viejo culto no había podido lograr por su voluntad, un puñado de inocentes marineros lo hacía por accidente.

Habían llegado a una cueva. Tras los primeros sondeos, la arenisca había dado paso a una vena caliza comanchiense llena de diminutos fósiles de cefalópodos, corales, equinoideos y spirifera, con indicios ocasionales de esponjas silíceas y huesos de vertebrados marinos —probablemente de teleósteos, tiburones y ganoideos—

Der Wind rauscht mit Ihren Stimmen, und die Erde grollt durch Ihren Geist.

So stay, belov'd Content! nor let my soul In fretful passion seek a farther goal. Apollo, chasing Daphne, gain'd his prize, But lo! she turn'd to wood before his eyes! Our earthly prizes, though as holy sought, Prove just as fleeting, and decay to naught. Enduring bliss a man may only find In virtuous living, and contented mind.

sesquipedalian

That was when I waked half of Arkham with my screaming as I plunged madly up from the abyss of sleep.

Carters of forms both human and non-human, vertebrate and invertebrate, conscious and mindless, animal and vegetable. And more, there were Carters having nothing in common with earthly life, but moving outrageously amidst backgrounds of other planets and systems and galaxies and cosmic continua; spores of eternal life drifting from world to world, universe to universe, yet all equally himself.

And to think of today in contrast, with such pale-pink brains that even a club of supposed artists gets shudders and convulsions if a picture goes beyond the feelings of a Beacon Street tea-table! The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

knowing that to this sunken place all the dead had come, I trembled and did not wish again to speak with the lotos-faces. Yet

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in  absolute  silence and barren immensity.

Though these stately old avenues were ill-surfaced and unkempt, their elm-shaded dignity had not entirely departed.

porque quien se distancia de la compañía de los vivos invariablemente frecuenta la compañía de cosas que no tienen vida...

a swarthy young wench who had marked anomalies of feature and seemed to exude a perpetual odor of fish.

Zaman?n, uzam?n ve doÄŸal yasalar?n insan? deli eden, y?prat?c? s?n?rlamalar?n? silkip atmak -engin uzakl?klarla baÄŸlant? kurmak- sonsuzluÄŸun ve hudutsuzluÄŸun en esrarl?, en derin s?rlar?na yaklaÅŸmak; böyle bir ÅŸey, kuÅŸku yok ki, insan?n hayat?n?, ruhunu ve ak?l saÄŸl???n? tehlikeye atmaya deÄŸerdi!

The text was darkly mysterious rather than openly horrible, though a knowledge of its origin and manner of gathering gave it all the associative horror which any words could well possess.

Is it possible that even my latest fear is sheer delusion?

After a while he began to shudder, and turned away from the scene as if frightened; yet could give no explanation save that he was overcome with the vastness, darkness, remoteness, antiquity, and mystery of the oceanic abysses.

Ultimate horror often paralyzes memory in a merciful way.

R'lyeh'deki evinde ölü Cthulhu düÅŸ görerek bekliyor.

low doorway and locked the accursed secret behind him. There would be