Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .