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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.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.
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.
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
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.
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...
