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Top 20 Clark Ashton Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.”

1. “Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.”

2. “Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “There have been times when only a hair’s-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.”

3. “There have been times when only a hair’s-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous knowledge, the horror- blackened memories which I have carried so long, were never meant to be borne by the human intellect.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.”

4. “The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”

5. “All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”

6. “In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Tell me tales of inconceivable fear and unimaginable love, in orbs whereto our sun is a nameless star, or unto which its rays have never reached.”

7. “Tell me tales of inconceivable fear and unimaginable love, in orbs whereto our sun is a nameless star, or unto which its rays have never reached.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Lo! I am Beauty’s constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.”

8. “Lo! I am Beauty’s constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation.”

9. “My own conscious ideal has been to delude the reader into accepting an impossibility, or series of impossibilities, by means of a sort of verbal black magic, in the achievement of which I make use of prose-rhythm, metaphor, simile, tone-color, counter-point, and other stylistic resources, like a sort of incantation.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “The torture-wheel shall serve him even as these horses from Hell have served my blood-red lilies of Sotar and my vein-colored irises of Naat and my orchids from Uccastrog which were purple as the bruises of love.”

10. “The torture-wheel shall serve him even as these horses from Hell have served my blood-red lilies of Sotar and my vein-colored irises of Naat and my orchids from Uccastrog which were purple as the bruises of love.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “We don’t know whether they’re going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.”

11. “We don’t know whether they’re going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.”

12. “To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.”

13. “It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Psychoanalysis and dianetics are, on the face of it, both absurd. People are what they are because of causes that go infinitely farther back than infancy of the mother’s womb.”

14. “Psychoanalysis and dianetics are, on the face of it, both absurd. People are what they are because of causes that go infinitely farther back than infancy of the mother’s womb.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “The Skeleton: We have wisdom, if you like – a dull and dusty wisdom, and I would give it all for a good draught of Chian wine.4 Perchance ’tis something to know that bodies are made of dust and water, the last of which is evaporable, and the former capable of dissolvement. For this is all our knowledge, in spite of much that is known and spoken of hierophant and philosopher. However, unlike the lore and wisdom of these, it may be contained without discommodation by one skull.”

15. “The Skeleton: We have wisdom, if you like – a dull and dusty wisdom, and I would give it all for a good draught of Chian wine.4 Perchance ’tis something to know that bodies are made of dust and water, the last of which is evaporable, and the former capable of dissolvement. For this is all our knowledge, in spite of much that is known and spoken of hierophant and philosopher. However, unlike the lore and wisdom of these, it may be contained without discommodation by one skull.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “He heard an eery, dry whispering whose source and distance he could not at once determine. Sometimes it seemed at his very ear, and then it ebbed away as if sinking into profound subterranean vaults. But the sound, though variable in this manner, never ceased entirely; and it seemed to shape itself into words that the listener almost understood: words that were fraught with the hopeless sorrow of a dead man who had sinned long ago, and had repented his sin through black sepulchral ages.”

16. “He heard an eery, dry whispering whose source and distance he could not at once determine. Sometimes it seemed at his very ear, and then it ebbed away as if sinking into profound subterranean vaults. But the sound, though variable in this manner, never ceased entirely; and it seemed to shape itself into words that the listener almost understood: words that were fraught with the hopeless sorrow of a dead man who had sinned long ago, and had repented his sin through black sepulchral ages.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “It would seem, O Nushain, that you have doubted your own horoscope,′ said the guide, with a certain irony. ‘However, even a bad astrologer, on occasion, may read the heavens aright. Obey, then, the stars that decreed your journey.”

17. “It would seem, O Nushain, that you have doubted your own horoscope,′ said the guide, with a certain irony. ‘However, even a bad astrologer, on occasion, may read the heavens aright. Obey, then, the stars that decreed your journey.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.”

18. “For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.”

19. “I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “But here, is this place of eternal bareness and solitude, it seemed that life could never have been. The stark, eroded stones were things that might have been reared by the toil of the dead, to house the monstrous ghouls and demons of primal desolation.”

20. “But here, is this place of eternal bareness and solitude, it seemed that life could never have been. The stark, eroded stones were things that might have been reared by the toil of the dead, to house the monstrous ghouls and demons of primal desolation.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Within, there were several ponderous brazen-bound volumes of medieval date, a thin manuscript of yellowing parchment, and two portraits whose faces had been turned to the wall, as if it were unlawful for even the darkness of the sealed closet to behold them.”

21. “Within, there were several ponderous brazen-bound volumes of medieval date, a thin manuscript of yellowing parchment, and two portraits whose faces had been turned to the wall, as if it were unlawful for even the darkness of the sealed closet to behold them.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.”

22. “Lunatics with a speculative bent can sometimes stumble overly close to certain guarded cosmic secrets.”

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Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”

23. “Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith Quote: “White spiders, demon-headed and large as monkeys, had woven their webs in the hollow arches of the bones; and they swarmed out interminably as Nushain approached; and the skeleton seemed to stir and quiver as they seethed over it abhorrently and dropped to the ground before the astrologer. Behind them others poured in a countless army, crowding and mantling every ossicle.”

24. “White spiders, demon-headed and large as monkeys, had woven their webs in the hollow arches of the bones; and they swarmed out interminably as Nushain approached; and the skeleton seemed to stir and quiver as they seethed over it abhorrently and dropped to the ground before the astrologer. Behind them others poured in a countless army, crowding and mantling every ossicle.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

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