Quotes by : H.P. Lovecraft

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its....

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

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear....

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before....

The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hint....

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations....

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion....

I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that....

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present;....