"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" Quotes
A man becomes obsessed with uncovering his dark ancestral past, leading him down a path of forbidden knowledge and unspeakable horrors.
horror | 127 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
What had been done to him in the dark of the night, and what was still being done to him, were matters only for the dead and the moon to know.
There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity.
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
