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H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

H. P. Lovecraft quotes

American Novelist August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937

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And, most vivid of all, there was the dramatic epic of the rats - the scampering army of obscene vermin which had burst forth from the castle three months after the tragedy that doomed it to desertion - the lean, filthy, ravenous army which had swept all before it and devoured fowl, cats, dogs, hogs, sheep, and even two hapless human beings before its fury was spent. H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at..."
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. H. P. Lovecraft
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... H. P. Lovecraft
That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed. H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of..."
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. H. P. Lovecraft
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his... H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming"
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his..."
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. H. P. Lovecraft
But the ship swept on, and the dusk hushed the hum of the day, and the first stars above blinked answers to the early fireflies on the banks as that jungle fell far behind, leaving only its fragrance as a memory that it had been. H. P. Lovecraft
It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon. H. P. Lovecraft
The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general... H. P. Lovecraft
I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes. H. P. Lovecraft
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear. H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities."
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities. H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft quote: "I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world..."
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. H. P. Lovecraft

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