More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
Never Explain Anything
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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...
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
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..
