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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

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

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

For he who passes the gateways always wins a shadow, and never again can he be alone. I — H.P. Lovecraft

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

It happened in June, about the anniversary of the meteor's fall, and the poor woman screamed about things in the air which she could not describe. — H.P. Lovecraft

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. — H.P. Lovecraft

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. — H.P. Lovecraft

If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible. — Charles Gilman

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

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. — 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? — H.P. Lovecraft

I do not think that any realism is beautiful. — H.P. Lovecraft

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit. — H.P. Lovecraft

And when she talks of Carrie White her face takes on an odd pinched look that is more like Lovecraft out of Arkham than Kerouac out of Southern Cal. — Stephen King

I don't believe that there is any fourth dimension, and I emphatically do not believe in Tao. — 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

It isn't so very far from the elevated as distance goes, but it's centuries away as the soul goes. — H.P. Lovecraft

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope. — H.P. Lovecraft

All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins. — H.P. Lovecraft

They were large, even for the mus decumanus, which sometimes measures fifteen inches in length, — H.P. Lovecraft

My youngest boy went mad. He sits drooling on the porch, trying to play the cat like an accordion. He's been scratched some. — H.P. Lovecraft

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. — Stephen King

The cat ... is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe. — 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

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

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

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. — H.P. Lovecraft

Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches ... men should not have the heads of crocodiles ... — H.P. Lovecraft

My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown. — H.P. Lovecraft

A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs. — H.P. Lovecraft

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me ... — H.P. Lovecraft

I should not have ventured out that night; for the taint of thunder was in the clouds, — H.P. Lovecraft

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people. — H.P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft story "The Outsider. — Ray Russell

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be. — H.P. Lovecraft

When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it's time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide. — H.P. Lovecraft

On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft's place in popular culture. — Ross E. Lockhart

The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor. — H.P. Lovecraft

Fayez whistled low. That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y'know, whatever. — James S.A. Corey

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble. — Mike Mignola

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely. — H.P. Lovecraft

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence. — H.P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me — Stephen King

incurable lover of the grotesque — 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

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend. — Bruce Boxleitner

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

Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard. — 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

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. — H.P. Lovecraft

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. — H.P. Lovecraft

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point. — H.P. Lovecraft

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. — 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

All fled - all done, so lift me on the pyre
The Feast is over, and the lamps expire. — Robert E. Howard

The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, — 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

Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth's globe. — 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

H.P. Lovecraft is for fantasy fiction what C.G. Jung is for analytical psychology. — Bogdan Vaida

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. — H.P. Lovecraft

Still, it's a nice, cynical book for those who like atrocity scenes - starving prisoners forced to eat their girlfriends, etc. — H.P. Lovecraft

Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges. — H.P. Lovecraft

Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities. — H.P. Lovecraft

Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom. — H.P. Lovecraft

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises ... — H.P. Lovecraft

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 — H.P. Lovecraft

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,
But all the sadder tums, the more he knows! — H.P. Lovecraft

better to meet a ghoul, which one can see, than a bhole, which one cannot see. — H.P. Lovecraft

I said, I try to open my mail at least once a year, but sometimes I neglect it. — H.P. Lovecraft

This very morning, an hour agone, he has mounted his white ass for the return journey to Vyones. — H.P. Lovecraft