Quotes About Mystery

In seinem Verhalten schien eine kryptische, sardonische Arroganz zu lauern, als ödeten ihn alle menschlichen Wesen nur noch an.

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

bhole whose form no man might see.

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

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

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!

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.

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

there was much breathless talk of new elements, bizarre optical properties, and other things which puzzled men of science are wont to say when faced by the unknown. Hot

He said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

for the soapy, greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy.

DIES MIES JESCHET BOENE DOESEF DOUVEMA ENITEMAUS".

Meanwhile no more must be told. There was a secret which even torture could not extract. Mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few.

H.P. Lovecraft

And always the shadow of nameless fear hung about the sealed trap-doors and the dark, windowless elder towers.

Only the silent, sleepy, staring houses in the backwoods can tell all that has lain hidden since the early days; and they are not communicative, being loath to shake off the drowsiness which helps them forget.

There had been aeons when other Things ruled on the earth, and They had had great cities. Remains of Them, he said the deathless Chinamen had told him, were still to be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came, but there were arts which could revive Them when the stars had come round again to the right positions in the cycle of eternity.

For the people of Ulthar were simple, and knew not whence it is all cats first came.

H.P. Lovecraft

Madness was in all the Jermyns, and people were glad there were not many of them.

the sailor who broke down the door could perhaps have told frightful things if he had not forthwith gone completely mad—

The Whisperer in Darkness

Light indeed glowed on the panels ahead, but it was not any light that the moon gives. Terrible and piercing was the shaft of ruddy refulgence that streamed through the Gothic window, and the whole chamber was brilliant with a splendour intense and unearthly.

Denn dieser Ort konnte keine gewöhnliche Stadt sein – er musste den ursprünglichen Kern und Mittelpunkt irgendeines urzeitlichen und unfassbaren Kapitels der Erdgeschichte gebildet haben, der nur in den dunkelsten und verzerrtesten Mythen vagen Widerhall findet und vom Chaos der Erdwehen verschlungen wurde, lange bevor irgendeine uns bekannte Menschenrasse aus dem Affenstadium herauswatschelte