We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

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