Quotes About Unknown

Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware; for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos.

The one test of the really weird is simply this—whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

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...

For I, despite all you can say, and despite all I sometimes try to say to myself, know that loathsome outside influences must be lurking there in the half-unknown hills—and that those influences have spies and emissaries in the world of men.

For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.

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.

There will always be a small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

nascent, lifeless earth out of cosmic space—their

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

I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

You cannot oppose what you cannot see or feel. You cannot oppose the thousand-dimensional. Suppose they should eat their way to us through space!

I. Introduction

Ye have done much to bring about the indescribable return. May ye go mad quickly and not be devoured.

I am Providence.

For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.

Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth's globe.

resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark

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 I do not fear him now, for I suspect that he has known horrors beyond my ken. Now I fear for him.

Who knows the end? What

My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown.

better to meet a ghoul, which one can see, than a bhole, which one cannot see.

I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.