Quotes from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
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― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“En épocas extrañas hasta la muerte puede morir.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“there are some experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing, and leave only such an added sensitiveness that memory reinspires all the original horror.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

“A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

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