More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
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.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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.
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...
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
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.
