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.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
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.
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
