Black star Quotes

“Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time.”

“The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished. I raised my seared eyes to the fathomless glare; and I saw the black stars hanging in the heavens: and the wet winds from the Lake of Hali chilled my face.("In The Court of the Dragon")”

“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.”

“I am afraid... But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight, and that will have to make me brave.”

“Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.”