“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and I lifted entreating hands to the single black ruined tower that reached above the forest into the unknown outer sky. And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall through I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without even beholding day.” DreamLightWaitingSkySolitudeLongingForestUnknownTower Book:The Outsider Source: The Outsider
“Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference between those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. - The Silver Key” DreamRealityDreams Book:At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror Source: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror
“Lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence. - The Silver Key” DreamRealityDreams Book:At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror Source: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror