H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume II Quotes

“It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measureable dimensions could so shake and change a man; and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker’s perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnameable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume II: 1927-1935

“It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measureable dimensions could so shake and change a man; and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker’s perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnameable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision. In that second look Willett saw such an outline or entity, for during the next few instants he was undoubtedly as stark mad as any inmate of Dr. Waite’s private hospital.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume II: 1927-1935

“As I told you longe ago, do not calle up That which you can not put downe; either from dead Saltes or out of ye Spheres beyond.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume II: 1927-1935

“To fancy Charles in a savage state that night was quite ridiculous, for as long as she had remained awake she had heard faint sounds from the laboratory above; sounds as if of sobbing and pacing, and of a sighing which told only of despair’s profoundest depths.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume II: 1927-1935

“From them there was never any gossip, for to even the commonest of mortal instincts there are terrible boundaries.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume II: 1927-1935

“His walks were always adventures in antiquity, during which he managed to recapture from the myriad relics of a glamorous old city a vivid and connected picture of the centuries before.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Omnibus Collection, Volume II: 1927-1935