I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustr….

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of….

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace..

Do not call up any that you can not put down..

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities..

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time..

It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism….

I like coffee exceedingly..

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one….

I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fie….

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit..

It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial s….

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming.

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with….

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality..

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die..

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed..

The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insub….

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Never Explain Anything.