More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
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.
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...
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
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.
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.
