H. P. Lovecraft

Quotes

• “Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling mo...”
• “Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain s...”
• “For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period ...”
• “We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight cove...”
• “It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He...”
• “No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful...”
• “It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed d...”
• “Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption...”
• “Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human specie...”
• “Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Chan...”
• “Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this k...”
• “If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would mere...”
• “Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes o...”
• “The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imaginat...”
• “That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotl...”
• “I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conce...”
• “What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beaut...”
• “Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusio...”
• “All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happines...”
• “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
• “To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.”
• “Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
• “I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.”