Best Cosmic Horror Quotes

"They are the harbingers of the end, the destruction of all things, and will figuratively and literally consume the entire galaxy."

"Phase 3: Consumption. From the perspective of somebody who is on a world being attacked by the tyranids, the invasion in and of itself is a true cosmic horror."

"The simplest way you can describe Cosmic horror is fear of the unknown."

"Lovecraft shifted supernatural horror away from its previous focus on human issues to a focus on Cosmic ones."

"It's a Lovecraft-inspired cosmic horror that has devoured god knows how much of the universe, and we are just another step along its path."

"Cthulhu awakening typically draws from the cosmic horror mythology created by author H.P. Lovecraft."

"I think existential horror and cosmic horror is what really gets under my skin."

"There's something about horror, specifically cosmic horror, that I find very intriguing."

"When you have the core of such a great idea, like the Lovecraftian concept, focus on the cosmic horror of it all."

"The fear of the unknowable is what makes cosmic horror so compelling."

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

"Someday the piecing together of disassociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality and of our frightful position therein..." - H.P. Lovecraft

"It's a sphere of cosmic void from the space between the stars filled with milky acid-damaged tentacles. It's amazing! I mean, I couldn't, it's just so unbrand!"

"As your character investigates Mysteries, you will discover the horrible truth of the Cthulhu Mythos."

"Lovecraft's horror is not one of intrusion but of realization the world has always been implacably Bleak the horror lies in our acknowledging that fact."

"You don't win in a cosmic horror. You only ever hope to hold the line."

"Despite HP Lovecraft's difficulty in adaptation, 2019's Color Out of Space perfectly invokes the cosmic horror for which the chello creator is renowned."

"Nature, beautiful nature. Nature is quite beautiful, especially when you introduce Cosmic horror to it."

"The looming dread that a galaxy ending parasite gave to the universe."

"Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor and something terrible though I know not in what proportion still remains."

"It was just a color out of space, a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all nature."

"Surprise, plot twist, your dad, your uncle, your relative is a piece of shit."

"Floating in an endless void was better than allowing that ageless horror to consume me."

"I love a good Slow Burn Cosmic Horror Story, I feel like the aliens is just kind of a front."

"The lore surrounding the Slender Man, especially in this game, is Cosmic Horror in nature."

"The only thing protecting all of reality from the final coalescence of insanity and terror is the fact that the unspeakable gods wait dreaming."

"The outer gods are tied to the concept of death, rot, chaos, and absence of order."

"Cosmic horror may go so far beyond scary that it loops back around and becomes almost blissful."

"Cthulhu is supposed to be so alien and unfathomable that the very sight of him drives people insane."

"I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror."

"Maybe Lovecraft was right about all of this."

"Our universe is a cold and terrible one, replaced with horror, the very existence of which frazes the boundaries of our minds."

"The Brethren moons perceive their existence and mission as Divine and inevitable, considering themselves akin to Gods orchestrating the Ascension of species through eradication."

"There were worse things in this universe," the void monster pipes up.

"The Void is strongly echoing H.P. Lovecraft's brand of cosmic horror."

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and after strange eons even death may die."

"It's very H.P. Lovecraftian, considering that there are forces that are so much more sophisticated than you."

"They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths which things like the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon affrightedly hint about."

"It's about the thing that ultimately makes Cosmic horror work: the unspeakable ineffable glorious World-shatteringly massive something that manages to obliterate your sanity and your self-concept."

"It felt more of a human kind of story attached to the cosmic horror like the the vastness of space and time and our connection to it which again makes me feel like so insignificant"

"Lovecraft may have perfected the cosmic horror genre in his writing but I think we have to address the big prejudiced elephant in the room here first."

"The fear of the unknown is again ever present in our minds, setting the scene for the modern Eldritch boom."

"When he does, it's quite possible the cosmos may be doomed to drown in his putrescent ooze."

"'He spoke of messengers from beyond and made references to obscure passages in the Necronomicon and Song of Yeast. He spoke of alien beings, entities terribly unhuman, impossible of measurement by any human yardstick, to be combated effectively by mankind.'"

"Cthulhu, far and away the most popular of H.P. Lovecraft's creations, is said to be a manifestation of destruction and chaos."

"The entire universe is terrifying, making sense of what's real."

"There is perhaps no better way to scour the horror-filled cosmos than through the eternal lens of folklore."

"Cosmic horror is something that I truly admire."

"The call of Cthulhu also the first and only story by Lovecraft where humans and one of the cosmic entities called the Great Old Ones come face to face."

"Elden Ring, like that's obviously rooted in fantasy but it has cosmic horror elements as well."

"The encounter with the Lovecraftian God is not of chance; this is a calculated plan."

"That is what cosmic horror is all about. That unknowable, inescapable thing that is beyond our comprehension."

"Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa."

"That which is dead can never lie, in strange eons even death may die."