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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
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..
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
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.
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
