Life is a hideous thing.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

When things are falling apart, know they are actually falling into place.

Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be.

Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.