Existential Horror Quotes

“Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.”
― Derek Raymond, The Crust on its Uppers

“Quand l'immanence surplombant sur nous, ciel, gouffre, vie, tombeau, éternité, apparaît patente, c'est alors que nous sentons tout inaccessible, tout défendu, tout muré. Quand l'infini s'ouvre, pas de fermeture plus formidable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity”
― H.P. Lovecraft, [Classic Lovecraft : The Call of Cthulu and Other Stories] (By (author) H. P. Lovecraft) [published: March, 2016]

“I have no hopes, only a searing curiosity to riddle the corpse of my dead sou”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe