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

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

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

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

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.