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Robert W. Chambers quotes
13 quotes from 2 of Robert W. Chambers’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
The King in Yellow
“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts,” said Mr. Wilde.
— Mr. Wilde
“to come is easy and takes hours; to go is different—and may take centuries.”
— Spoken by a character
Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.
Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa.
— Spoken by a character
“Come and see my rose-coloured bath full of death!”
— Spoken by a character
“He is a king whom emperors have served.”
— Spoken by a character
Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.
This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask.
“I am content to serve him,” I replied.
— Spoken by a character
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Were we acquainted for the first time with the circumstances attending the production of an individual of our race, we might equally think them degrading, and be eager to deny them, and exclude them from the admitted truths of nature.
It is most interesting to observe into how small a field the whole of the mysteries of nature thus ultimately resolve themselves. The inorganic has one final comprehensive law, GRAVITATION. The organic, the other great department of mundane things, rests in like manner on one law, and that is,—DEVELOPMENT.
Let us seek in the history of the earth’s formation for a new suggestion on this point. We have seen powerful evidence, that the construction of this globe and its associates, and inferentially that of all the other globes of space, was the result, not of any immediate or personal exertion on the part of the Deity, but of natural laws which are expressions of his will.