Lovecraftian Quotes

“Do everything that you can to resist Void Madness. Focus on the love, joy and
happiness that can be found within yourself, no matter where you are. If you ponder the
reality of The Void’s vast expanse for even one brief moment, it could have devastating
effects on your mind, so focus instead on the present. Bring your attention to your day-today
goals.
How will you find food? What will you drink to survive? Where is there a safe place to
hide?
Focusing on the present will keep you from straying into Void Madness, and keep you
productive for the harsh times ahead.”
― Chuck Tingle, Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide To The Void

“Surely a public servant cannot be so cynical!"
"Have you met the public?”
― alexis hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

“If the sky, by sinister alchemy, or diabolical prestidigitation, transformed into a mirror of the mother sea, the primordial cradle; and if leviathans swam that breadth and hovered, softly undulating over the teaming habitations of the globe, feasting; what should you wear?”
― Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

“I turn away and stare through the window at the field where the scotch broom creeps yellow as hell toward my doorstep. Six years and it has advanced from the hinterlands to the picket fence in the back yard. Six more years and it will have chewed this house to the foundation, braided my bones in its hair.”
― Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

“There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

“For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Beast Of Averoigne

“My companion made a noise that, in an aerated environment, would probably have come out as a weary sigh. 'Honestly, I remember a time when being violated by a monstrosity from the abysmal darkness was something you really had to work at. Young people today have no idea, do they?' She paused. 'That is to say, young people twenty years from the time we've just departed will have no idea, will they?'
    'Tell me about it,' Miss Reef flicked her tail disdainfully.”
― Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of disassociated 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 deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“It is the magnificum. It lives in that space between spaces, in that spot one ten-thousandth of an inch outside your range of vision. You cannot see it. It sees you. And when it sees you, it does not see you. It has no conception of you. There is magnificum and nothing else.”
― Rick Yancey, The Isle of Blood

“if you’ll let me hijack your feed for one second, I think we could help each other.

The voice was chemical-sweet, carcinogenic, a pool of oily promise cooking in a silver spoon. Its silky bravado reminded Deirdre of stories about devils and demons, about dark fae spirits feasting on firstborn children after a handshake and a trick.”
― S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath

“If you find yourself becoming tired or delirious while reading this volume, or if you
experience fever, chills, nausea or extreme softness, stop reading immediately. These can be
the first signs of Void Madness”
― Chuck Tingle, Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide To The Void

“If you suspect that your mind is succumbing to the call of The Void, immediately stop
reading this guidebook for at least four hours. During that time, it is recommended that you
find calming things to relate to from this timeline, like a favorite show on television, or a delicious home cooked meal of spaghetti and chocolate milk. The more you can learn about your own body during this time of healing, the better.”
― Chuck Tingle, Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide To The Void

“If you suspect that your mind is succumbing to the call of The Void, immediately stop reading this guidebook for at least four hours. During that time, it is recommended that you
find calming things to relate to from this timeline, like a favorite show on television, or adelicious home cooked meal of spaghetti and chocolate milk. The more you can learn about your own body during this time of healing, the better.”
― Chuck Tingle, Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide To The Void

“If you find yourself becoming tired or delirious while reading this volume, or if you experience fever, chills, nausea or extreme softness, stop reading immediately. These can be the first signs of Void Madness”
― Chuck Tingle, Dr. Chuck Tingle's Complete Guide To The Void

“And as it was with the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk, so it was with all those other monstrous things … whole libraries had there been made upon this and upon that; and many a thousand million mouldered into the forgotten dust of the earlier world.”
― William Hodgenson

“The dreams of men are older than brooding Egypt or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon, and this was fashioned in my dreams.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind- of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1

“Right now, it sounds great to know as little as possible. It makes me sad that we both know, and we’ve both seen how terribly hostile and unforgiving all of this can get. I shudder to think the entire world can be erased in the blink of an eye without so much as a warning.”
― Nick Vossen, The Swansong Conspiracy

“It was teeth and talons and fire and mustard gas, it was ghosts scorched into Hiroshima streets, showerheads pouring poison into tiled rooms, and a grasp that twined itself around his own bones, a tongue that licked for marrow in his own spine, and a hunger he could feel in his own stomach.”
― S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath

“Have you seen the burned man?”
― J.R. Potts, Visitor on The Mountain

“The goat let out a god awful high pitched scream as it impaled itself on the shotgun barrel.
Shelton pushed the safety to the off position and fired.
Goat fur and blood splattered the inside of his Jeep”
― Mark Dossett, Exit 999

“Beside the road at its crest a still higher summit rose, bleak and windswept, and I saw that it was a burying-ground where black gravestones stuck ghoulishly through the snow like the decayed fingernails of a gigantic corpse”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival

“As the steps and the passage grew broader, I heard another sound, the thin, whining mockery of a feeble flute; and suddenly there spread out before me the boundless vista of an inner world–a vast fungous shore litten by a belching column of sick greenish flame and washed by a wide oily river that flowed from abysses frightful and unsuspected to join the blackest gulfs of immemorial ocean.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival

“And those monsters saw not a young man with a sword but a scarred and screaming horror with the rising red doom of the sun at his back and a hellishly shrieking, flashing, living sword in his hands.”
― Stephen R. Babb, Skallagrim – In The Vales Of Pagarna

“They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the Absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft : The Complete Fiction

“For the first time, the little ant finally realized fully what it meant to be an ant. For what could she do, against creatures like that? She looked down at her brothers and sisters below, and she envied them for not knowing the truth. She bowed her head, put her face in her forelegs, and wept. And then she climbed down and she never, ever told anyone what she had seen.”
― A.J. Steiger, Cathedral of Bones

“Strange in the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But Stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.”
― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

“Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep;
Among the shadows of the tombs his dusky people creep.
I speak the Word from the hidden gulfs that never knew the sun—
Send me a servant for my hate, oh scaled and shining One.”
― Robert E Howard

“It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending.”
― qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division