History Quotes / CosmicHorrorStory

->''"I'm convinced now that whatever I have glimpsed or encountered and spend my whole life tracking have been with us since humankind came out of the trees. It is not something 'out there' -- in the president's words. They may once have been our 'neighbors' from some distant star, but I believe they were here before us. I believe that were we able to look deeply into the whole of human history we would see that they have always been here. I believe they have observed, helped, haunted, tormented, and teased us since the beginning of our time for reasons entirely their own. I believe that they are a multitude and that their true nature is singular and energetic, not physical, evolved in some way light-years beyond our ability to understand, and as a consequence our limited, linear sense of time means nothing to them. A few of us were chosen, for some strange reason, to learn more about about them. Or perhaps for other reasons.\\\
"I believe their presence fills more than the skies or these woods; they lie at the root cause of any extranormal or paranormal experience our species have recorded: religious, spiritual, scientific, ghostly, inspirational, angelic and demonic. From the burning bush to Fatima and Lourdes, to "vampires" and sky people, monsters and abductions in the night and Roswell and Homestead and all those strange lights and crafts seen for millennia by so many of us in so many skies, I believe that all these phenomena that our puffed-up egos and busy ant mind persist in trying to label, categorize, penetrate, and comprehend, all spring from this same uncanny source. This is the mother of all 'others', and were we ever able to set our eyes on its ultimate nature we would find it as foreign, incomprehensible, and indifferent to us as ours would be to bacterial microbes swimming in a drop of water.\\\
"These final truths you must never forget: we are utterly incapable of knowing their true intent, and their true intent may not be to wish us well. It may be that they're here to guide or even aid our evolution; it's equally possible that we may matter no more to them than those random protozoa in our tap water do to us. In other words, by our meager moral definitions, they may both be "good" and "evil," and those precious distinctions of outs mean nothing to them. There may even be a "good" and "evil" side at play here and we, our human race, are the game!\\\
"Let me hasten to add I hope I'm wrong, that this work -- being "chosen" -- has deranged me, but Garland, I fear that I'm right and in my right mind."''

-->--'''[[GreekChorus The Criminologist's]]''' closing narration, ''Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow''

-->--''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-types-movie-adaptations-that-must-be-stopped_p2/#ixzz2zAkuTjSn 5 Types of Movie Adaptations That Must Be Stopped]]

-->--''Aiyeola,'' comparing humanity to [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens the Ceph]], ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}: Legion''

-->-- '''Mr. Fantastic''', delivering the ArcWords for ''ComicBook/JonathanHickmansAvengers'', the cosmic horror story of [[spoiler: the end of Marvel's Multiverse.]]

-->--''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'', the result of [[spoiler:the End of the Cycle]] [[DealWithTheDevil coming to collect]]

"Let me hasten to add I hope I'm wrong, that this work -- being "chosen" -- has deranged me, but [[spoiler:Garland]], I fear that I'm right and in my right mind."''

"Let me hasten to add I hope I'm wrong, that this work -- being "chosen" -- has deranged me, but Garland, I fear that I'm right and in my right mind."''

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''"I can do anything I want. Anything at all. Remember that. The only thing saving you is... I don't want anything."''
-->--'''Emrakul''' (or rather [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm her avatar Emeria]]), ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

-->--'''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "[[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/poetry/p121.aspx Nemesis]]"[[note]]Now with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKKTqB_Lzv0 musical reading]] to the tune of "Piano Man" by Music/BillyJoel![[/note]] (also {{epigraph}} to "The Haunter of the Dark")

-->--'''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "Nemesis" (also {{epigraph}} to "The Haunter of the Dark")[[note]]Now with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKKTqB_Lzv0 musical reading]] to the tune of "Piano Man" by Music/BillyJoel![[/note]]

-->--'''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "Nemesis" (also {{epigraph}} to "The Haunter of the Dark")[[note]]Now with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKKTqB_Lzv0 musical reading]] to the tune of "Piano Man" by Music/BillyJoel[[/note]]

-->--'''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "Nemesis" (also {{epigraph}} to "The Haunter of the Dark")[[note]]Now with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKKTqB_Lzv0 musical reading]] to the tune of "Piano Man" by Creator/BillyJoel[[/note]]

-->--'''Creator/HPLovecraft''', "Nemesis" (also {{epigraph}} to "The Haunter of the Dark")

->See, Lovecraft's stories haven't remained popular so long just because his monsters are scary. They endure because his monsters are metaphors for existential alienation. It's not the ''appearance'' of the monsters in his stories, it's the ''reality'' of them, the fact that they exist. Their existence alone proves that humanity is doomed and that all our hopes and dreams are stupid. Running into one of Lovecraft's Elder Gods is like finding a strange pair of underwear in your bed and realizing that your spouse is cheating on you. It's not the underwear itself that's stabbing you in the heart; it's the betrayal it represents. Lovecraft's monsters are proof to the protagonist that the universe is not benevolent. Finding strange underwear might mean that your spouse never loved you; stumbling upon a Lovecraft creature means that ''God'' never loved you.

->''This, Christian realized, was the apex of what Lovecraft had summed up in his philosophies. Perhaps it had been symbolic of something, back then; of the world's advancing technologies and the harnessing of what an antiquarian thought mankind was not meant to harness, of the increasing understanding of the capaciousness of the cosmos at large, of the integration of foreign races into a modern society as viewed by a xenophobe. But the quintessential idea of Lovecraft's views was fear of the unknown, of the incomprehensible, of what mankind was not and was never meant to behold. And no matter how many eons mankind was gifted to advance, no matter what hyper-evolved super-society they may have eventually metamorphosed into, they never would have been able to understand a being as immeasurable as the stars themselves, who's great, eldritch mind was vast enough to encompass the whole of mankind's existence in a single vacuole of its thought.''

This, Christian realized, was the apex of what Lovecraft had summed up in his philosophies. Perhaps it had been symbolic of something, back then; of the world's advancing technologies and the harnessing of what an antiquarian thought mankind was not meant to harness, of the increasing understanding of the capaciousness of the cosmos at large, of the integration of foreign races into a modern society as viewed by a xenophobe. But the quintessential idea of Lovecraft's views was fear of the unknown, of the incomprehensible, of what mankind was not and was never meant to behold. And no matter how many eons mankind was gifted to advance, no matter what hyper-evolved super-society they may have eventually metamorphosed into, they never would have been able to understand a being as immeasurable as the stars themselves, who's great, eldritch mind was vast enough to encompass the whole of mankind's existence in a single vacuole of its thought.

The price we have paid is everything. In an instant, so fast there is no time to react, let alone respond, the [Empire] is... gone. Where once there was thriving colonies, there is now only death. Where once mighty fleets crossed the void, there is only ghosts and debris. [[spoiler:All devoured by the End. All taken by the Shroud.]]

->''"[[AC:[[AbusivePrecursors My kind]] transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation; independent. Free of all weakness. [[PunyEarthlings You]] cannot even grasp the nature of our existence.]]"''
-->--'''Sovereign''', ''Franchise/MassEffect''

-->-- "Nemesis", Creator/HPLovecraft (also {{epigraph}} to "The Haunter in the Dark")

-->-- [[GreekChorus The Criminologist's]] closing narration, ''Film/RockyHorrorPictureShow''