More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
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.
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
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...
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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..
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
Never Explain Anything
