H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

American - Novelist | August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

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