„[…]his back is fairly turned?The pair of goodly palaces are burned,The gardens ravaged, and your Guelf is drunkA week with joy; the next, his laughter sunkIn sobs of blood, for he found, some strange way,Old Salinguerra back again; I sayOld Salinguerra in the town once moreUprooting, overturning, flame beforeBlood fetlock-high beneath him; Azzo fled;Who scaped the carnage followed; then the deadWere pushed aside from Salinguerra’s throne.He ruled once more Ferrara, all alone.Till Azzo, stunned awhile, revived, would pounce;Coupled with Boniface, like lynx and ounce.“

— Robert Browning

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„That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. Meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return.“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.“
— Colette
„"You couldn't have a beastie, a snake-thing, on an island this size," Ralph explained kindly. "You only get them in big countries, like Africa, or India."Murmur; and the grave nodding of heads."He says the beastie came in the dark.""Then he couldn't see it!"Laughter and cheers."Did you hear that? Says he saw the thing in the dark—""He still says he saw the beastie. It came and went away again an' came back and wanted to eat him.""He was dreaming."Laughing, Ralph looked for confirmation round the ring of faces. The older boys agreed; but here and there among the little ones was the doubt that required more than rational assurance."He must have had a nightmare. Stumbling about among all those creepers."More grave nodding. They knew about nightmares."He says he saw the beastie, the snake-thing, and will it come back tonight?""But there isn't a beastie!""He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches. He says will it come back again tonight?""But there isn't a beastie!"There was no laughter at all now and more grave watching. Ralph pushed both hands through his hair and looked at the little boy in mixed amusement and exasperation.“
— William Golding
„"You asking me the way?" "Yes," I said, "since I can't find it myself." "Give it up! Give it up!" said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.“
— Franz Kafka