H. P. Lovecraft Short Quotes

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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

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In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

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Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

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The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

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I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

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When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

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Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

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All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me...

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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

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

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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

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It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

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

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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

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In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

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Nyarlathotep... the crawling chaos... I am the last... I will tell the audient void....

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I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

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Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

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So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

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Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal

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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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Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

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West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

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Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

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As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

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The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

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