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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror QUOTES

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror QUOTES

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

― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

2 " I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
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― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

3 " 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 sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

4 " On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

5 " We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

6 " En épocas extrañas hasta la muerte puede morir. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

7 " there are some experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing, and leave only such an added sensitiveness that memory reinspires all the original horror. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

8 " A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror