That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

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.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.