Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The ...
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.
TERRENCE HOWARD 'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H...
VICTOR LAVALLE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the command...
JOHN WESLEY Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that cre...
WAYNE DYER 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON They are trained to look for stress, fear or some sort of deception. They identify certain character...
GEORGE NACCARA There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurit...
DADA BHAGWAN It's great to be thought of as the master of anything. Even idiocy. Master of idiocy, Wes Craven...
WES CRAVEN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of mag...
SUSANNA CLARKE It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise,...
AMY KLOBUCHAR The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic l...
H. P. LOVECRAFT As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always ...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natura...
LYSANDER SPOONER The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him b...
PAWAN MISHRA Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fea...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. You don’t need to control emotion,” he said. “Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Some...
DAN MILLMAN Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselv...
CHARLES LAMB The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhuman...
PEARL BUCK Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whate...
THOMAS LIGOTTI You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when...
AARON RODGERS Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatre...
PATTON OSWALT Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened ...
CHRIS RASCHKA I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fe...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fe...
H.P. LOVECRAFT “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is...
H.P. LOVECRAFT One of the things we know about fear is that you can always bring it back. So if either a rat or a p...
JOSEPH LEDOUX I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I wa...
RAFAEL VINOLY When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or...
FRANK STELLA The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in yo...
JOAN DIDION The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned ent...
HERMAN MELVILLE Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
GLORIA STEINEM I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stu...
DAN CHAON The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhuman...
PEARL BUCK The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhuman...
PEARL S. BUCK Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear ...
DAVID HORSEY The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law inde...
MURRAY ROTHBARD As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Wh...
GARY HAMEL Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or he...
JONATHAN WINTERS The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhuman...
PEARL S. BUCK Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear ...
DARIO ARGENTO A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excit...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Never remember the problematic issues, or live in a never-ending shadow without forgiveness.
RACHEL K. MYRICK There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunri...
RAVI SHANKAR I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ...
CARLY POPE Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and w...
TIM LAHAYE I've never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that's for sure, although I like to create...
JOHNNY DEPP To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Th...
MARTIN SELIGMAN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fight...
MADCHEN AMICK I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. It is thought that make...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The horror films that I've made have been satirical in one way or another or political, and I re...
GEORGE A. ROMERO The beauty about being a natural actor is just being yourself without getting caught up with how you...
MARTIN DANSKY It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and...
GEORGE SAUNDERS How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.
THE CURE Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not e...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I think one of the most important directions to be pursued in the 'sciences of human action'...
MURRAY ROTHBARD I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made...
LANA DEL REY The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C. Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessn...
BRAM STOKER When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't r...
PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in...
RAMAKRISHNA Where 'er thou art be thou (w)holy there.
MURRAY I. MESZAROS History has always done enough of praise for MOM; it is time to raise our living standards to gracef...
ANUJ SOMANY If you have been giving people the opportunities to be themselves, you won't talk of chances.
APURVA GAGLANI Truth or Dare ? Dare! Love me Back!
ANSHUL SRIVASTAVA Stupids enjoy life the most for they can never realize the value of the precious things lost & the l...
ANUJ SOMANY Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend eas...
ANUJ SOMANY A wicked feels proud to see the crowd around oneself often, but a wise feels it is nice to spend mos...
ANUJ SOMANY Concieving a child after treatment from doctors may involve using crooked means by one of the family...
APURVA GAGLANI When a sensible quote is adored a lot by many or most people on a person’s INDIVIDUAL social media...
ANUJ SOMANY A word or music that flows from the soul magically touches the heart of one and all.
ANUJ SOMANY The level of sadness and not happiness increases in a person’s life as his/her awareness rises abo...
ANUJ SOMANY Be a voice Voice your opinions Voice your thoughts Voice your displeasure Voice your feelings Voice ...
APURVA GAGLANI Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te...
APURVA GAGLANI The staircase is a firm footing, the lift is a hanging platform. Wonder why so many people prefer th...
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H.P. LOVECRAFT I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
H.P. LOVECRAFT At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
H.P. LOVECRAFT No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H.P. LOVECRAFT I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. LOVECRAFT They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
H.P. LOVECRAFT He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...
H.P. LOVECRAFT We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
H.P. LOVECRAFT What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
H.P. LOVECRAFT To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H.P. LOVECRAFT After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

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