The Shadow Out of Time Quotes

“Primal myth and modern delusion joined in their assumption that mankind is only one—perhaps the least—of the highly evolved and dominant races of this planet’s long and largely unknown career.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time

“Markedly defective individuals (of the Great Race) were quickly disposed of as soon as their defects were noticed. Disease and the approach of death were, in the absence of a sense of touch or of physical pain, recognised by purely visual symptoms.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time

“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilization, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space - to another stopping-place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time

“The Great Race seemed to form a single, loosely knit nation or league, with major institutions in common, though there were four definite divisions. The political and economic system of each unit was a sort of fascistic socialism, with major resources rationally distributed, and power delegated to a small governing board elected by the votes of all able to pass certain educational and psychological tests. Family organisation was not overstressed, though ties among persons of common descent were recognised, and the young were generally reared by their parents.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time

“Si hay algo que nos salva en este mundo… es la incapacidad de la mente humana para correlacionar todos sus contenidos. Vivimos en una isla de ignorancia en medio de los mares negros del infinito, y no estamos hechos para viajar lejos…
[…] Hay terrores que caminan por los pasillos de los sueños cada noche, que embrujan el mundo de los sueños, terrores que pueden relacionarse con los aspectos más mundanos de la vida cotidiana. Cada vez estoy más convencido de la existencia de un mundo fuera de éste en que estamos, lindante con él pero quizá completamente alucinatorio.”
― Lovecraft Howard Phillips, The Shadow out of Time