306 Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.