H.P. Lovecraft Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Ye have done much to bring about the indescribable return. May ye go mad quickly and not be devoured.
Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
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!
knowing that to this sunken place all the dead had come, I trembled and did not wish again to speak with the lotos-faces. Yet
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33 - but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all.
In that shrieking the inmost soul of human fear and agony clawed hopelessly and insanely at the ebony gates of oblivion.
These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
My eldest cat, "Nigger-Man," was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts;
When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it's time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide.
Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it ...
If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature,
My youngest boy went mad. He sits drooling on the porch, trying to play the cat like an accordion. He's been scratched some.
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step of their boasted science confuted.
Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and a scholar and had not minded.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.
It is only in the terrible phantasms of drugs or delirium that any other man can have such a descent as mine.
a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen it. Nor
He was sunk beneath seas of silence; and his name, which would once have caught his notice above the howling of a storm, had become and empty sound.
They said it had been there before D'Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods.
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
We can take the shuttle at the South Station for Battery Street, and after that the walk isn't much.
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live.
Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs;
For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.
My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key
Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
This man, a vagabond, hunter, and trapper, had always been strange in the eyes of his primitive associates.
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.