It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sle….

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear..

I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when th….

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or ….

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dre….

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold mor….

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed..

I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the hor….

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction o….

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualis….

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative….

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other..

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the totter….

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

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

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

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..

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

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

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in th….