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The Outsider QUOTES

The Outsider QUOTES

1 " So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

2 " I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

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

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

4 " For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

5 " Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me - to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken. And yet I am strangely content and cling desperately to those sere memories, when my mind momentarily threatens to reach beyond to the other. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

6 " I cannot even hint what it was like, for it was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, and detestable. It was the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, and dissolution; the putrid, dripping eidolon of unwholesome revelation, the awful baring of that which the merciful earth should always hide. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

7 " Para mí no tenían nada de
grotescos los huesos y los esqueletos esparcidos por las criptas de piedra
cavadas en las profundidades de los cimientos. En mi fantasía asociaba estas
cosas con los hechos cotidianos y los hallaba más reales que las figuras en
colores de seres vivos que veía en muchos libros mohosos. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

8 " As I did so I became suddenly and agonizingly aware of the nearness of the carrion thing, whose hideous hollow breathing I half fancied I could hear. Nearly mad, I found myself yet able to throw out a hand to ward off the foetid apparition which pressed so close; when in one cataclysmic second of cosmic nightmarishness and hellish accident my fingers touched the rotting outstretched paw of the monster beneath the golden arch. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider

9 " I did not shriek, but all the fiendish ghouls that ride the night-wind shrieked for me as in that same second there crashed down upon my mind a single and fleeting avalanche of soul-annihilating memory. "

― H.P. Lovecraft , The Outsider