BEST HP LOVECRAFT QUOTES

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

“I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim; where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or luster or name.”

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”

“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but 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 deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

“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.”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”

“The world is full of strange monsters, and we pick and choose the best ones to bring into our homes.”

“From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”

“I am so tired of this world, I want to retrograde to the black and formless void.”

“Nobody will ever love one more than the things once loved.”

“There is no beauty without some strangeness, and no truth without imagination.” SYMPATHY MOTHER QUOTES

“To cease is to begin, and to begin is to cease. This is the truth behind all mysteries in life.”

“Madness rides the star-wind. It whispers terrible things to us all, and laughs at our ignorance.”

“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity.”

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

“Life seemed to be reaching out its black claws for him.”

“The essential Saltes of animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.”

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone.”

“The dreamer and the daydreamer are two different beings.”

“I have frequently wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong.”

“The dog is a very nice animal. It is stylish too. That’s why we eat it.”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”