H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

American - Novelist August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

H. P. Lovecraft

Life, Alone, Peace, Black, Dead, Safety

Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.

H. P. Lovecraft

Beauty, Freedom, Men, Cats, Pride

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

H. P. Lovecraft

Ignorance, Live, Black, Island, Far

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Fear, Emotion, Unknown, Kind, Mankind

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

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Nature, Dreams, Memories, Time, Ocean

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. - H. P. Lovecraft

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

H. P. Lovecraft

Memories, Fear, Childhood, Sadness, Only

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

H. P. Lovecraft

Fear, Best, Deepest, Emotion, Creation

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft

Mind, World, Human, Human Mind, Most

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

H. P. Lovecraft

Life, Children, Stars, Men, Thought

It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting.

H. P. Lovecraft

Friend, Dog, Choose, Interesting, Own

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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

H. P. Lovecraft

Me, Care, Better, Wish, Born, Enough

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H. P. Lovecraft

Religion, Truth, True, Young, Try, Quest

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

Cats, Dark, See, Midnight, Up, Dogs

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Black, Me, Process, Abyss, Form, Keenest

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

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Nature, Blue, Green, Black, Ocean, White

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

H. P. Lovecraft

Beauty, Man, World, Everything, Little

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.

H. P. Lovecraft

Dog, You, Eye, Bored, Will, Cat

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

H. P. Lovecraft

Fear, Stress, Picture, Law, Strange

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft

World, Joke, Mankind, Comic, Indeed

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

H. P. Lovecraft

Work, Simple, Result, Progress, Some

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

H. P. Lovecraft

Journey, Song, End, Without, Like, Weary

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 bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

H. P. Lovecraft

Dog, Alone, Sleep, Lost, Know, Side

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

H. P. Lovecraft

Irony, Greatest, Absent, Seldom, Even

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

H. P. Lovecraft

I Am, People, Because, Ordinary, Write

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

H. P. Lovecraft

Alone, View, True, Church, Help, Only

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

Dreams, Thoughts, Business, Man, Me, Him

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