75 quotes found
Horror author · American
American horror author
“... whatever family name has been given to a case of depression, it has an objective in common with all its kind: to sabotage the network of emotions you had come to identify as the composition of ...”
“This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and like i...”
“When the world uncovers some dark disguise,Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.”
“Forsake the world and cling to the shadows.”
“And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.”
“From around the corner's edge a grotesque light was trickling out, the first intimations of an ominous sunrise over a dark horizon. I dimly recognized this colored light, though not from my waking ...”
“All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counte...”
“I know in a way I never knew before that there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to do, and no one for me to know. The voice in my head keeps reciting these old principles of mine. The voice ...”
“Hypocrisyin other words, the practice of lying about lyingshields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of fragments that fit together as a biological unit but not as anything else, not...”
“Lucifer endears himself to us only as the Lord of Lies, for in this role he is most convincing as a character, which is to say, as a fiction that has been so fully realized that he misguides us wit...”
“All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.”
“You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and ...”
“We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pain at that, with a little pleasure, very little, to string us along--a world where all organisms ...”
“Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew.”
“Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers. Their subject is not the world about them but the one within them. From sto...”
“What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the darkness, the eyes of that face, smiling too much and too long. Without a word, that smile coerces...”
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”
“Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.”
“METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals whether ecstatic or abysmal we should be obliged to change our names, as we are no longer who we once were. Instead th...”
“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of the extinction that would ensue in a few generations if the species d...”
