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H.P. Lovecraft  Quotes
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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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....

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old,...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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The cat . . . is for the man who appreciates beauty as the one living force in a blind and purposeless universe.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain, the greater part of the squalor I saw is due. Many of these vermin were obviously...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Well did the traveler know those garden lands that lie betwixt the wood of the Cerenerian Sea, and blithely did he follow the singing river Oukranos that marked his course. The sun rose higher over...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!

—H.P. Lovecraft

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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..

—H.P. Lovecraft

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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Heaven knows where I’ll end up – it’s a safe bet I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things– mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death,...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception...

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Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel with the greasily smooth floors and the degenerate murals aping and mocking the...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large…. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true;...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he does not know what to do except...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned by his individual perception. It will be saved, if at all,...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage – the first I had ever seen – in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening, and saw twilight float up from the river to the marvelous golden spires of Thran. And just at the hour of dusk he came to the...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this–whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my longing for light grew so frantic that I could rest no more, and...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon’s dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming…

—H.P. Lovecraft

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There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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It cannot be described, this awesome chain of events that depopulated the whole Earth; the range is too tremendous for any to picture of encompass. Of the people of Earth’s unfortunate ages, billions of years...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Life
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By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river’s edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the King of Ilek-Vad comes from his far realm on the twilight...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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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...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

—H.P. Lovecraft

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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....

—H.P. Lovecraft

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

—H.P. Lovecraft

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CthuluMadness
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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DreamsLifeReality
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While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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I am a student of life, and don’t want to miss any experience. There’s poetry in this sort of thing, you know–or perhaps you don’t know, but it’s all the same.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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…but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets…

—H.P. Lovecraft

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DarkTomb
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