American - Novelist | August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
H. P. Lovecraft
IronyGreatestAbsentEvenSeldom
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
WorldJokeMankindComicIndeed
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
DogAloneSleepLostKnowLeave
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
FearBestCreationEmotionDeepest
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
LifeStarsChildrenMenThought
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
MeBlackProcessAbyssFormKeenest
No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
CatsImaginationThoughtAgainst
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
GreatLongDownWillMoreSavage
The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
GreatTimeMindUniverseWhyReason
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
I AmPeopleWriteOrdinaryBecause
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