Supernatural Quotes

All that stuff about Father Earth, it's just stories to explain what's wrong with the world. Like th...

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twist...

I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own...

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of...

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a v...

Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world...

Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their o...

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?" asked Tak."Yes—and no," said Yama, "If by 'demon' ...

The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; a...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No...

Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like...

And so we carried on in our little piece of forever.

He did not himself believe in the supernatural, but the thing happened, and he proposed to tell it a...

It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges...

We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been op...

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? ...

Once and for all, let us speak the paradox aloud: "We have been force-fed for so long the shudders o...

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those ch...

Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi...

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, ...

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who ...

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found ver...

We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know th...

Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him ...

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department ...

Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands st...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that di...

All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intell...

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human bein...

When I was a child, I first thought that these shades might be malevolent spirits who fostered evil ...

The functions of the human frame are, broadly speaking, known. They are a country, anyhow, that has ...

Gray clouds were charging across tissues of white, which stretched and shredded and tore slowly, unt...

Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because so...

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they mus...

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the ast...

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, co...

All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.'There are only six of ...

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those ...

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the ev...

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in ...

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present;...

I was too much taken up with another interest to care; I felt beneath my feet the threshold of the s...

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to spea...

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce...

...I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so. Mind you, this i...

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fair...

Among the countless people in the world, two will find each other against all the odds and beat as a...

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly a...

Detective-story writers give this thrill by exploiting the resources of the possible; however improb...

The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can...

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in th...

Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I sudd...

One night after dinner a group of us were talking about the supernatural, and one of our dinner gues...

I'm just warning you," Neeve said. "Watch out for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a le...

His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't see...

Truth is stranger than fiction...