Dagon Quotes

“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realize, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon et autres nouvelles de terreur

“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon

“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon et autres nouvelles de terreur

“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...”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon

“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. There was nothing within hearing, and nothing in sight save a vast reach of black slime; yet the very completeness of the stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating fear.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon

“Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon

“Of the name and abode of this man but little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to know that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, and that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not on the fields and groves but on a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair.
—"Azathoth" from Dagon and Other Macabre Tales”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

“Then suddenly I saw it. With only a slight churning to mark its rise to the surface, the thing slid into view above the dark waters. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

“The change happened whilst I slept. Its details I shall never know; for my slumber, though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon

“Awestruck at this unexpected glimpse into a past beyond the conception of the most daring anthropologist, I stood musing whilst the moon cast queer reflections on the silent channel before me.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales 2