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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, “Cthulhu fhtagn”.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“but 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 deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“I should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds,”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring’s flowering meads; when learning stripped the Earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone forever, there was a man who travelled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world’s dreams had fled.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Monstrous, unnatural, colossal, was the thing—too far beyond all the ideas of man to be believed except in the silent damnable small hours of the morning when one cannot sleep.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“shadowy tangles of unpaved musty-smelling lanes where eldritch”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“From the tangle of chimney-pots scarcely a wisp of smoke came,”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me—to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful. Behind the figure was a vague suggestion of a Cyclopean architectural background.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“There will always be a small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best—one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected, so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or “outsideness” without laying stress on the emotion of fear.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“Ia! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!”
― Lovecraft, Howard Phillips

“that in which young Wilcox had had his strange visitations.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“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, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way down toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore paws which clasped the croucher’s elevated knees.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“For I, despite all you can say, and despite all I sometimes try to say to myself, know that loathsome outside influences must be lurking there in the half-unknown hills—and that those influences have spies and emissaries in the world of men.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“I have said that I dwelt apart from the visible world, but I have not said that I dwelt alone.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“all which is forgotten need not necessarily be dead,”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“At this horror I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“Having to decide what to do every day was just the type of problem he wanted.”
― Michael C. Grumley, Breakthrough