Quotes About Mystery

It had happened in the 'eighties, and a family had disappeared or was killed.

Benzersiz ve karma??k olan? doÄŸaüstücülüÄŸün ilkel kestirmeciliÄŸiyle k?sa yoldan aç?klamaya çal??mak ancak yeterince düÅŸünmesini bilmeyen insanlar?n harc?d?r.

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.

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

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

These beings were like the waters of the river Than, not to be understood. Their deeds I recall not, for they were but of the moment. Their aspect I recall dimly, for it was like to that of the little apes in the trees. Their name I recall clearly, for it rhymed with that of the river. These beings of yesterday were called Man.

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

Of witch, and demon

Nothing really known, can continue to be acutely fascinating.

This idea of a black, hidden horror connected with incalculable gulfs of some sort of distance was oddly widespread and persistent.

It is man's relation to the cosmos—to the unknown—which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. . . . —H. P. LOVECRAFT2

Koltuktaki o ÅŸeyler, mükemmel mikroskobik benzerliÄŸin, kimliÄŸin en ince detay?na dek; Henry Wentworth Akeley'nin yüzü ve elleriydi.

When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed.

Little things make considerable excitement in little towns, which is the reason that Kingsport people talked all that spring and summer about the three unidentifiable bodies, horribly slashed as with many cutlasses, and horribly mangled as by the tread of many cruel boot-heels, which the tide washed in.

The change happened whilst I slept. Its details I shall never know; for my slumber, though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous.

Ammi would give me no added particulars of this scene, but the shape in the comer does not reappear in his tale as a moving object. There are things which cannot be mentioned, and what is done in common humanity is sometimes cruelly judged by the law.

there are strange objects in the great abyss, and the seeker of dreams must take care not to stir up or meet the wrong ones.

The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, and Kuranes wondered whether the peaked roofs of the small houses hid sleep or death.

Wir leben auf einer friedlichen Insel der Ahnungslosigkeit inmitten schwarzer Meere der Unendlichkeit, und es war nicht vorgesehen, dass wir diese Gewässer weit befahren sollen.

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.

Some secrets of inner earth are not good for mankind