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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.


H. P. Lovecraft

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H.P. LOVECRAFT I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
H.P. LOVECRAFT At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
H.P. LOVECRAFT No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H.P. LOVECRAFT I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. LOVECRAFT They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
H.P. LOVECRAFT He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...
H.P. LOVECRAFT We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
H.P. LOVECRAFT Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
H.P. LOVECRAFT What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
H.P. LOVECRAFT To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement...
H.P. LOVECRAFT I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H.P. LOVECRAFT After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO