“Poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last -- what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men!” HumanitySentiencePrecursors Book:At the Mountains of Madness Source: At the Mountains of Madness
“If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night.” DeathHumanityHorrorSuicide Book:Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family Source: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family
“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.” PastHumanityStudyMysteryMadnessObsessionUndoing Book:The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Source: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward