More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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..
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
