I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.


H. P. Lovecraft

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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of th...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers sa...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mounta...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing,...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which ev...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those bo...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchan...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pra...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H.
Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS
There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO
Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO