H
H.p. Lovecraft
13 quotes
Quotes
- “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some ...”
- “A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they m...”
- “Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinki...”
- “Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human ani...”
- “At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspiration...”
- “All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things an...”
- “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the flo...”
- “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks be...”
- “I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brillianc...”
- “I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
- “In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!”
- “Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
- “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”