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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
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...
Never Explain Anything
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
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.
