That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.