Cthulhu mythos Quotes

“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”

“The world is thinner in some places.”

“As she fell, Esther wasn’t worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasn’t worried about hitting the shallows and pin diving to the ocean floor and shattering her spine. She wasn’t even worried about Cthulhu. (Okay, maybe a little.) What she worried about was Eugene’s willingness to jump. The way he glanced down at the water far below and looked at it like it was home. The way he stepped lightly from the cliff’s edge, and the way he fell through the air faster than she did, dragged down by earth’s magnetic field. The way he flickered in the sunlight as he hit the water, the same way Tyler Durden flashed on-screen four times before you saw him solidly. Foreshadowing the twist to come. Eugene was afraid of demons, and monsters, and above all the dark, but he was not afraid of death. That scared her more than anything.”

“When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.”

“You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.”

“Even Azathoth is bored of this tune.”

“The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”

“All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.”

“Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.”— “Supernatural Horror in Literature”

“Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.”