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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
Never Explain Anything
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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..
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
