The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

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.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

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

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.