306 Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

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

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.