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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
World
Joke
Mankind
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Oldest
Emotion
Mankind
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Pleasure
Unexpected
Superficial
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Dances
Unless
Happen
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Greatest
Horrors
Seldom
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Dead
Strange
Eternal
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.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
World
Human
Infinity
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.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Private
Furniture
Sleep
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.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
World
Human
Revelation
It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Good
Contented
Exist
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Outsider
Stranger
Century
Never Explain Anything
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Never
Explain
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..
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Attribute
Formless
Unchanging
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.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Black
Knowledge
Yawning
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Mercy
Callousness
Remain
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.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Night
Objective
Dreamers
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
House
Dead
Dreaming
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Business
Interests
Dreams
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...
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Useful
Reason
Human
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
― H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
Creative
Uneven
Fabrics