The best Quotes from The Call of Cthulhu

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could.

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

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Every person is a special thought of God, not only humanity as a whole.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

Hello, everyone. It's time to play a game. You all pretended to cure me. But what I have planned for each of you is very real.

Death is a surprise party. Unless of course, you're already dead on the inside.

You're probably wondering where you are. I'll tell you where you might be. You might be in the room you die in.

Dewey Riley: "Do you have a gun?"
Sidney Prescott: "I'm Sidney Prescott. Natürlich hab ich ne Waffe."

There are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie. For instance:
1) You can never have sex. The minute you get a little nookie, you're as good as gone. Sex always equals death.
2) Never drink or do drugs. The sin factor. It's an extension of number one.
And 3) Never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, say "I'll be right back."

Hey, you'd better check your conscience at the door, sweetie. I'm not here to be loved.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. 'Grownups are the real monsters', he thought.

We all wear masks. We all pretend. Presenting a perfect illusion on the outside, while we desperately try to hide who we are on the inside.

Life hurts. The moment you think you've got it all, it smacks you in the face.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Erin: "I didn't go to Mexico to watch you get sh-t-faced for four days."
Kemper: "That's what you do in Mexico!"

Dante: "[seeing a Confederate flag] What? Are you serious?"
Lila: "Newsflash, we're in deep Texas."

Richter: "Sorry if a big gun makes you uncomfortable."
Melody: "I've seen bigger."

I used to think you were like me. You were attracted to the darkness. But, Tate you are the darkness.

The more you fear something, the more power you give it.

Like who I'm gonna live with after you get divorced? Is there a third option, cause both of you kind of make me wanna kill myself.

Bruce: "You remember what I told you?"
Finney Shaw: "That some day I have to stand up for myself."
Bruce: "Some day is today, Fin."

The Grabber: "Would you hand me my hat? Yes, sir. I am a part-time magician."
Finney Shaw: "Are those black balloons in there?"
The Grabber: "Would you like to see a magic trick?"

The tree. The door. The gate. I'd never seen it before, except in my dream!

All sad people like poetry. Happy people like songs.

Cornered animals are the most dangerous.

Not all deaths are the tragedies we think they should be.

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

Now, you need to listen to me. The world is a hungry place, a dangerous place, and a dark place. I’ve only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining.

When I was a kid, there was a place, a dark place. They closed it down, and let it rot. But the things that live there, they come back.

What lies ahead is not gonna be easy. But we're gonna make our lives count, not because we're the last generation - because we're in the beginning.

We have to be brave in this life we have, simply to exist now.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

I went from dying to being more alive than ever.

Dr. Michael Morbius: "How far are we allowed to go to fix something that's broken?"
Morbius' Mentor: "Until the remedy is worse than the disease."

If you're going to run, do it now.

That's what it means to have faith, that in the darkness, in the worst of it, in the absence of light, and hope, we sing.