Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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

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

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.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

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.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.