Best HP Lovecraft Quotes :
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. — HP Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. — HP Lovecraft
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die. — HP Lovecraft
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all. — HP Lovecraft
To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. — HP Lovecraft
May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! — HP Lovecraft
The eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty. — HP Lovecraft
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. — HP Lovecraft
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity. — HP Lovecraft
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. — HP Lovecraft
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — HP Lovecraft
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night. — HP Lovecraft
Man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. — HP Lovecraft
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. — HP Lovecraft
Do not call up that which you cannot put down. — HP Lovecraft
The ignorant and the deluded are in a strange way to be envied. — HP Lovecraft
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything! — HP Lovecraft
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. — HP Lovecraft
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. — HP Lovecraft
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them. — HP Lovecraft
I could not write about ‘ordinary people’ because I am not in the least interested in them. — HP Lovecraft
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about. — HP Lovecraft
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. — HP Lovecraft
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. — HP Lovecraft
To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden. — HP Lovecraft
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. — HP Lovecraft
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. — HP Lovecraft
To the scientist, there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. — HP Lovecraft
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. — HP Lovecraft
The man of truth has learned that illusion is the one reality, and that substance is the great impostor. — HP Lovecraft
Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions. — HP Lovecraft
We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages. — HP Lovecraft
The only saving grace of the present is that it’s too damned stupid to question the past very closely. — HP Lovecraft
Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at most often. — HP Lovecraft
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal. — HP Lovecraft
HP Lovecraft Fear Quotes :
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. — HP Lovecraft
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. — HP Lovecraft
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. — HP Lovecraft
HP Lovecraft Quotes About Life And Dreams :
When the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. — HP Lovecraft
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference between those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings. — HP Lovecraft
Sometimes less material life is our truer life, and our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon. — HP Lovecraft
How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility! — HP Lovecraft
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer demoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. — HP Lovecraft
