Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or me….

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes..

No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ...….

Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies ….

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit..

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and d….

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defens….

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams..

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. ….

The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her m….

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable..

Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that ….

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent..

I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That se….

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

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….

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless ….

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding..

I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the strange and fanta….

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphem….

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosm….