“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Old Cairo is itself a story-book and a dream--labyrinths of narrow alleys redolent of aromatic secrets;” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some goal. He dared not disobey the summons for fear… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“the spectral summer of narcotic flowers and humid seas of foliage that bring wild and many-coloured dreams. And as I walked by… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It is at night, especially when the moon is gibbous and waning, that I see the thing. I tried morphine; but the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen -… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“Our apprehensions were over what we might find, or fail to find, at the end of our journey; for silence continued to answer all… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“What we heard was not the fabulous note of any buried blasphemy of elder earth from whose supernal toughness an age-denied polar sun had… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“The Lurking Fear: Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky... formless phantasms… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
