More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
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..
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.
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
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 never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
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.
