More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.
To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
