More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
Never Explain Anything
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.
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.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
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.
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.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
