Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosi….

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed ….

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects..

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream..

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness..

To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak l….

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as….

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the s….

I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and int….

Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging ….

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….

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people..

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!.

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metr….

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthes….

The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-d….

I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way cor….

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism..

Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you..

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise..

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end..