Men ask in the marketplace in idle talk why the world was created; there is no answer, for the world was made without thought by an idiot to whom good and evil are the same. He hungers and feeds yet is never satiated; he pipes and hears but does not see. Of sorrow he knows nothing; neither has he felt happiness. He pipes with patience, and the music of his flute rolls outward in trilling waves that rise and fall upon the breath of the cosmos, and the notes fulfil their patterns and move inexorably toward the last day, when the fury of his half-brother shall be expressed and there will come silence.
— A description of Azathoth, Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred, by Donald Tyson
It's nothing but power. God? Gimme a break. It's as dumb as a rock. A big ol' lump of power, enough to crack the planet in half... just sitting there, doing nothing, incapable of doing anything. It has no meaning. Even worms deserve more respect.
— Chachamaru Ashikaga describing Konjin, the God of Metal, Full Metal Daemon Muramasa
Azathoth is so cosmically stupid that he saps the intelligence from those who see him, big old chaos beyond angled space that he is. Why, if you were to take the biggest fool in the world to see him, the fool's wits would still steam out of his ears. And if you took the thousand cleverest people in the world, their minds would spill into the void, like water from overturned goblets, but all their cleverness would not even dampen the burning void of Azathoth's mindlessness. Still, it's fun to try.
— "The Young Person's Guide to Cthulhu and His Friends", Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute
