In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring..

With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses ….

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents..

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window!….

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within..

Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately pois….

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I ca….

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The St….

After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom ….

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suf….

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare..

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men..

The greatest human achievements have never been for profit..

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sotho….

I like coffee exceedingly..

Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either ….

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my….

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams..

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1….

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange back….

Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities..