Carcosa Quotes

#1. Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die though, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa

Robert W. Chambers

#2. I saw the lake of Hali, thin and blank, without a ripple or wind to stir it, and I saw the towers of Carcosa behind the moon. Aldebaran, the Hyades, Alar, Hastur, glided through the cloud-rifts which fluttered and flapped as they passed like the scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow.

Robert W. Chambers

#3. I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask.

Robert W. Chambers

#4. Strange is the night where black stars rise,
and strange moons circle through the skies,
but stranger still is
lost Carcosa.

Robert W. Chambers

#5. The time had come, the people should know the son of Hastur, and the whole world bow to the black stars which hang in the sky over Carcosa.

Robert W. Chambers

#6. The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

Fred Allen

#7. Delicious instants, before one's eyes get used to the dark.

Samuel Beckett

#8. C. S. Lewis, when he wrote of his wife, We both knew this: I had my miseries, not hers; she had hers, not mine.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities ...

Hugh Martin

#10. And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And when I tried to speak, I stuttered

Kate Nash

#11. My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

Aerin Lauder

#12. If you start sweet, then you've got somewhere to go.

Bill Withers

#13. Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.

Libba Bray

#14. But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

William Zinsser

#15. I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Joe Biden

#16. Okay, I know she thinks her little bro stinks but that sounds like she's tracking him by his stench.

Jazz Feylynn

#17. Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

Jeb Bush