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I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Do not call up that which you cannot put down.
— H.P. Lovecraft
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind?
— H.P. Lovecraft
he never spoke save in the debased patois of his environment;
— H.P. Lovecraft
Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
— H.P. Lovecraft
At this horror I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars.
— H.P. Lovecraft
A mountain walked or stumbled.
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For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone. I
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
— H.P. Lovecraft
the trees would die before the poison was out of the soil.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
— H.P. 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!
— H.P. Lovecraft
The geometry of the place was all wrong. One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal,
— H.P. Lovecraft
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
— H.P. Lovecraft
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.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
— H.P. Lovecraft
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
— H.P. Lovecraft
My eldest cat, "Nigger-Man," was seven years old and had come with me from my home in Bolton, Massachusetts;
— H.P. Lovecraft
I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Where does madness leave off and reality begin?
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
— H.P. Lovecraft
They were large, even for the mus decumanus, which sometimes measures fifteen inches in length,
— H.P. Lovecraft
Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches ... men should not have the heads of crocodiles ...
— H.P. Lovecraft
It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.
— H.P. Lovecraft
No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.
— H.P. Lovecraft
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you.
— H.P. Lovecraft
It isn't so very far from the elevated as distance goes, but it's centuries away as the soul goes.
— H.P. Lovecraft
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.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I don't believe that there is any fourth dimension, and I emphatically do not believe in Tao.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
— H.P. Lovecraft
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.
— H.P. Lovecraft
My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds,
— H.P. Lovecraft
The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
— H.P. Lovecraft
A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.
— H.P. Lovecraft
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.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Pleasure to me is wonder - the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
— H.P. Lovecraft
This man, a vagabond, hunter, and trapper, had always been strange in the eyes of his primitive associates.
— H.P. Lovecraft
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
— H.P. Lovecraft
We can take the shuttle at the South Station for Battery Street, and after that the walk isn't much.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
— H.P. Lovecraft
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Copp's Hill Burying Ground, which could not be many blocks away from this very house, was a favourite scene.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Thirst had driven him into the desert again,
— H.P. Lovecraft
The daemoniac rattle and wheeze of a blasphemous organ, choking and rumbling out the mockeries of hell in a cracked, sardonic bass.
— H.P. Lovecraft
This very morning, an hour agone, he has mounted his white ass for the return journey to Vyones.
— H.P. Lovecraft
incurable lover of the grotesque
— H.P. Lovecraft
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.
— H.P. Lovecraft
They were the makers and enslavers of that life, and above all doubt the originals of the fiendish elder myths
— H.P. Lovecraft
I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them.
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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.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I could not help feeling that they were evil things mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
— H.P. Lovecraft
You could see one near Henchman Street from the elevated last year.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The cat ... is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.
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Still, it's a nice, cynical book for those who like atrocity scenes - starving prisoners forced to eat their girlfriends, etc.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane,
— H.P. Lovecraft
Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth's globe.
— H.P. 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.
— H.P. Lovecraft
West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Who knows the end? What
— H.P. Lovecraft
So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges.
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Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
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Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises ...
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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
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