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H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight."

Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon."

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.




H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear."

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way."

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.




H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed."

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding."

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth."

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.




H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other."

Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same."

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!"

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods."

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.




H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating."

Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them."

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it."

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous."

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise."

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood."

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare."

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!"

I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak!



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time."

There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time."

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?"

To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism."

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town."

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing."

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in."

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality."

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness."

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions."

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience."

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish."

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.




H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes, But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!"

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming..."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages."

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "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 care to be."

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 care to be.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel."

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all."

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "I have seen the dark universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name."

I have seen the dark universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley."

For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins."

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



H.P. Lovecraft Quotes: "In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.