306 Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.

It is good to be a cynic it is better to be a contented cat and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

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