An Inhabitant of Carcosa Quotes

“For there be divers sorts of death—some wherein the body remained; and in some it vanished quite away with the spirit.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa

“Good stranger," I continued, "I am ill and lost. Direct me, I beseech you, to Carcosa”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa

“They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion.”
― Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa