242 Quotes About Literary

Johansen, thank God, did not know quite all, even though he saw the city and the Thing, but I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.

Meaning is deferred until some indefinite future.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

His problem is that he has so completely internalized the values of his society that he judges himself by standards rooted in social myths rather than human necessities.

Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!

whoaI wasn't LOOKING at a birdwow where is this even coming fromthe BIRDwouldn't stop LOOKINGat ME

...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the concept of brunt, of accepting and enduring, still seems to me to have a kind of nobility. It is, perhaps, less intelligent, but there is a stubborn selfhood about it that is dear to me. It can be, quite literally, the only way to survive.

I can't bear literary snobbery.

Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that.