Sleep Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

10 Sleep quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

Even the master of cosmic horror pauses to note the strange pull of night. These ten short passages blend his signature dread with the ordinary act of falling asleep, making the familiar feel subtly unsettling.

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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…

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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be…

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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his…

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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on…

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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life…

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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the…

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Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,…

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I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space,…

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When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small…

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“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small…

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