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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
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 oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
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.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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.
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.
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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...
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
