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#1

“Tekeli-li!”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: shoggoth

2 likes

#2

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

3270 likes

#3

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

2427 likes

#4

“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

tags: books, library, literature, reading, words

770 likes

#5

“Never Explain Anything”
― H.P. Lovecraft

569 likes

#6

“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.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

tags: dark-universe, horror

509 likes

#7

“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Temple

tags: cthulu, madness

431 likes

#8

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

158 likes

#9

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

208 likes

#10

“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.”
― Mark Gatiss

tags: doctor-who, night-terrors

168 likes

#11

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45221 likes

#12

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: escape, escapism, first-sentence, opening-lines, reality, sanity

1309 likes

#13

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

795 likes

#14

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

6099 likes

#15

“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

1168 likes

#16

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: evil, judgement, right

1206 likes

#17

“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

tags: prejudice, understanding

540 likes

#18

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

14532 likes

#19

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

11156 likes

#20

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

9153 likes

#21

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

13800 likes

#22

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: books, humor, television

6842 likes

#23

“این ذهن انسان است که داستان خلق می‌کند، انسان در ناخودآگاه خود به ذات هولناکش آگاه است و چون داستانی خلق می‌کند از تاریکی فاصله گرفته، از نور کلمات می‌سازد و بهمین دلیل است که همواره می‌گویم کتاب‌ها، از انسان‌ها بهترند”
― سیما تقوی

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#24

“ببین، بشنو، سخن مگو...بنویس، بگذار روح تو سخنگو باشد نه زبانت!”
― سیما تقوی

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#25

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: childhood, happiness

2084 likes

#26

“Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.”
― Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing

59 likes

#27

“چون ضحاک برخاست و اوضاع بدین سان دید، مارهایش بریخت!”
― سیما تقوی

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#28

“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

tags: lila-bard, rhy

1644 likes

#29

“I thought you just told me they used radio.”

They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”
― Terry Bisson

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#30

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: belief, gods, ideas

633 likes

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