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More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
Never Explain Anything
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
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.
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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.
