If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
H. P. LOVECRAFTOf our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
More H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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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.
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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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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.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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