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


H.P. Lovecraft

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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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Adulthood is hell.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment....
H. P. LOVECRAFT
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the corr...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of vari...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. B...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must neve...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of na...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed s...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.
H. P LOVECRAFT
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its cont...
H. P LOVECRAFT
The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the ...
H. P LOVECRAFT
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those bo...
H. P LOVECRAFT
If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in o...
H. P LOVECRAFT
It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be ...
H. P LOVECRAFT
Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.
H. P LOVECRAFT
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P LOVECRAFT
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serio...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no val...
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mi...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward kee...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive ...
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Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them v...
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The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by convent...
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe a...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think t...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a co...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which e...
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discov...
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture an...
H. P. LOVECRAFT
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic l...
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
H. P. LOVECRAFT