Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Sounds—possibly musical—heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.” — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!” — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
