More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
Never Explain Anything
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.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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!
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.
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
