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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
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.
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
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.
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...
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
