H. P. Lovecraft quotes - page 4

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise. (H. P. Lovecraft)
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes. View quote
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It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer. View quote
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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret. View quote
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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within. View quote
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West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. View quote
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My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. View quote
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be. View quote
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incurable lover of the grotesque. View quote
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. View quote
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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)
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.. View quote
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Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises... View quote
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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. View quote
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. View quote
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The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. View quote
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time. View quote
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The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods... View quote
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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. (H. P. Lovecraft)
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients-or their lack-and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws. View quote
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In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them. View quote
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I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. View quote
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One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down'. View quote
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