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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
Never Explain Anything
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...
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
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.
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
