The Whisperer in Darkness Quotes

“To visit Yuggoth would drive any weak man mad—yet I am going there. The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious Cyclopean bridges—things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the things came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids—ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness

“He told me to set my watch back an hour, since the northern hill country will have no dealings with new-fangled daylight time schemes. As I did so it seemed to me that I was likewise turning the calendar back a century.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness

“What I had thought morbid and shameful and ignominious is in reality awesome and mind-expanding and even glorious--my previous estimate being merely a phase of man's eternal tendency to hate and fear and shrink from the utterly different.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness

“I could tell that I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things have had a chance to grow and linger because they have never been stirred up.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness

“Was it too presumptuous to suppose that both the old legends and the recent reports had this much of reality behind them?”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness

“Koltuktaki o şeyler, mükemmel mikroskobik benzerliğin, kimliğin en ince detayına dek; Henry Wentworth Akeley'nin yüzü ve elleriydi.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness