Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”— H. P. Lovecraft
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”— H. P. Lovecraft
“I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable.”— 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.”— H. P. Lovecraft
“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”— H. P. Lovecraft
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”— H. P. Lovecraft
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”— H. P. Lovecraft
“It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.”— 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.”— H. P. Lovecraft
“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth.”— H. P. Lovecraft