Quotes About Mystery

I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

A mountain walked or stumbled.

They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died.

En épocas extrañas hasta la muerte puede morir.

forests of monsterous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannible devils; mound like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion...insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and daemon arcades choked with fungous vegetation...Heaven be thanked for the instinct which led me unconscious to places where men dwell; to the peaceful village that slept under the calm stars of clearing skies.

I made it last night in a dream of strange cities;

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.

Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges.

One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

I think Professor Angell died because he knew too much, or because he was likely to learn too much. Whether I shall go as he did remains to be seen, for I have learned much now.

From the tangle of chimney-pots scarcely a wisp of smoke came

You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to sense and seek for me within the repellent form which lies on this couch. We shall meet again - perhaps in the shining mists of Orion's Sword, perhaps on a bleak plateau in prehistoric Asia. Perhaps in unremembered dreams tonight; perhaps in some other form an aeon hence, when the solar system shall have been swept away.

Shoot Dr. Allen on sight and dissolve his body in acid. Don't burn it.

Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

Rara vez deja de haber ironía incluso en el mayor de los horrores.

The strange things of the past which I learnt during those nocturnal meetings with the dead he dismisses as the fruits of my lifelong and omnivorous browsing amongst the ancient volumes of the family library. Had it not been for my old servant Hiram, I should have by this time become quite convinced of my madness. But

What we heard was not the fabulous note of any buried blasphemy of elder earth from whose supernal toughness an age-denied polar sun had evoked a monstrous response.

This man, a vagabond, hunter, and trapper, had always been strange in the eyes of his primitive associates.

an' when they git ready... I say, when they git... ever hear tell of a shoggoth? 'Hey, d'ye hear me? I tell ye I know what them things be - I seen 'em one mght when... eh-ahhh-ah! e'yahhh...

If not dissuaded, they will get to the innermost nucleus of the antarctic and melt and bore till they bring up that which may end the world we know. So I must break through all reticences at last - even about that ultimate nameless thing beyond the mountains of madness.

that in which young Wilcox had had his strange visitations.