Pernicious

“Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.”
― Edward Gorey, The Evil Garden

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

“When people are finding meaning in things - beware.”
― Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“Nothing is harder yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.

Spoken by Albertus Secundus in "Das Glasperlenspiel”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game