Quotes by : H.P. Lovecraft

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...

By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate.....

Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly....

That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with strange aeons even death may die.

For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity....

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside....

As I shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, I knew that I had at last pried....

If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil....