quotes from at the mountains of madness:

“We had discovered that the earth’s past was more terrible than we could have imagined.”

quotes from at the mountains of madness:

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

quotes from at the mountains of madness:

“Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet, as I have already hinted, I must not altogether omit them from this account.”

quotes from at the mountains of madness:

“Decadent though they were, these entities had crossed the void from star to star and even galaxy to galaxy.”

quotes from at the mountains of madness:

"The more I study the universe, the more I am convinced of the impossibility of understanding it."

quotes from at the mountains of madness:

"I could not help feeling that they were evil things—mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss."