Quotes About Strange

En épocas extrañas hasta la muerte puede morir.

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

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

that in which young Wilcox had had his strange visitations.

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected, so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or "outsideness" without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

Good God! What eldritch dream-world was this into which he had blundered?

and mentally aberrant type.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." Only

It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet dreamed on the night before he sang his unexplained couplet: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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.

But as always in my strange and roving existence, wonder soon drove out fear; for the luminous abyss and what it might contain presented a problem worthy of the greatest explorer.

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

man's eternal tendency to hate and fear and shrink from the utterly different.

The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated, struck me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly overbalanced my ardour for strange delvings.

Naturally, there were many human bodies washed along by the streams in that tragic period; but those who described these strange shapes felt quite sure that they were not human, despite some superficial resemblances in size and general outline.

Strange and terrible books were drawn voluminously from the stack shelves and from secure places of storage; and diagrams and formulae were copied with feverish haste and in bewildering abundance.

I hear and do strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exaltation instead of terror.

Ebediyetin baÄŸr?nda uyuyan ölü deÄŸildir, Ama tuhaf çaÄŸlardan sonra ölüm de ölebilir. -Deli ÅŸair Abdul Alhazred

The cases were of a strange golden wood, with fronts of exquisite glass, and containing the mummified forms of creatures outreaching in grotesqueness the most chaotic dreams of man.

In the evening I asked old people in Arkham about the blasted heath, and what was meant by that phrase "strange days" which so many evasively muttered.

All the orchard trees blossomed forth in strange colours, and through the stony soil of the yard and adjacent pasturage there sprang up a bizarre growth which only a botanist could connect with the proper flora of the region

It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He

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.

As at all crises of his strange life, sheer cosmic curiosity triumphed over everything else.