“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.” MenWorldMindEndsBodyWould BeEarthSpaceRacePlanetsColdCivilizationHorrorMembersFilledCoreVegetablesEntityCreamStoppingTime And SpaceEldersDoomMonstrousCivilisationClingingMercuryRough TimesBeetlesMigrateBurrowingGreat Race Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)
“A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.” MenEndsHomeDeathDiesHe ManSittingWoundsBreastsPaceDoomPierce Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)
“Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.” WayEndsWholePleasureMissingDutySakeWhole LifeRighteousDoomHeed Author:Eugene Ionesco