Quotes About Ancient

As to what the things were—explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was "those ones," or "the old ones," though other terms had a local and transient use. Perhaps the bulk of the Puritan settlers set them down bluntly as familiars of the devil, and made them a basis of awed theological speculation.

we all come from onct—Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn—

It is no news to me that tales of hidden races are as old as all mankind.

I was quite unbalanced with that instinct for the strange and the unknown which had made me a wanderer upon earth and a haunter of far, ancient, and forbidden places.

They said it had been there before D'Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods.

God!...If only I had not read so much Egyptology before coming to this land which is the fountain of all darkness and terror!

I shuddered oddly in some of the far corners; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple.

I could tell that I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things have had a chance to grow and linger because they have never been stirred up.

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

For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He

Him Who is not to be Named.

It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind.

The Picture in the House * * * * * Written: December 12th 1920 First Published in The National Amateur, Vol. 41, No. 6 (July 1919)

This place had once been the seat of an evil older than mankind and wider than the known universe.

mountains of madness

there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

H.P. Lovecraft

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

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.

Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind

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.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." Then

Once more I ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneath the sand like an ogre under a coverlet