Quotes About Cthulhu

#1. I've really enjoyed B.R.P.D. since its first days when Guy Davis was an artist on the title, and if anyone is looking for an end of the world Cthulhu apocalypse title, Mignola and Arcudi and the artists who work the title do a fantastic job.

Ben Peek

#2. On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy
Krueger.
Granuaile MacTiernan

Kevin Hearne

#3. Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, "Cthulhu fhtagn".

H.P. Lovecraft

#4. I fished inside my head for something, some way to prove it. And those strange words floated to the surface of my need. In as clear a
voice as l could, l looked at Prospero and said, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Jonathan Maberry

#5. The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.

Simon R. Green

#6. You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons, Lesley had said when I explained my reasoning. I'd been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I've learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

David Conyers

#8. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

H.P. Lovecraft

#9. When we graduate from childhood into adulthood, we're thrown into this confusing, Cthulhu-like miasma of life, filled with social and career problems, all with branching choices and no correct answers.

Felicia Day

#10. It looked like I'd tried to trap Cthulhu.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day.

Victor LaValle

#12. [August] Derleth tried to prevent any other (non-Derleth-approved) writer from writing Cthulhu Mythos stories.If Lovecraft had wanted bad writers to avoid Cthulhu Mythos stories, he wouldn't have written back to August Derleth.

Kenneth Hite

#13. H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway
you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.

Howard Waldrop

#14. You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

Neil Gaiman

#15. The world is thinner in some places.

John Llewellyn Probert

#16. How can this be real?" I whispered. "I mean you ... you ... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would ... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?"
"Try and stop me.

Serra Elinsen

#17. There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.

H.P. Lovecraft

#19. Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

Julie Anne Peters

#20. My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.

Justin Timberlake

#21. We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Humphrey Gilbert

#22. Even Azathoth is bored of this tune.

Christy Leigh Stewart

#23. You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.

Tom Stoppard

#24. The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

H.P. Lovecraft

#25. Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You're ... you're tearing me apart!

Serra Elinsen

#26. Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#27. I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me

Kahlil Gibran

#28. It takes a long time to write something that is easy to read.

Brian McDonald

#29. remember to keep working from the inside out and keep getting back on track when we blow it.

Stephen R. Covey

#30. Hope is the key element of life because what ever move we make begins with hope.

Euginia Herlihy

#31. As the barman's hand rose from beneath the bar, Cabal was filled with a presentiment and a strange foreboding that he hadn't felt since the last time he'd watched the nightmare corpse city of R'lyeh rise, effulgent with the ineffable and fetid with fish, rise from the depths of the Pacific.

Jonathan L. Howard

#32. All fled - all done, so lift me on the pyre
The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

Robert E. Howard

#33. Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

H.P. Lovecraft

#34. There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

Serra Elinsen

#35. Fayez whistled low. That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y'know, whatever.

James S.A. Corey