Space Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

9 Space quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft’s cosmic dread often starts with the vastness of space. In this short collection of nine, you’ll catch the unsettling flavor of his imagination, a compact glimpse for fans of his eerie storytelling.

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Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind,…

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No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations…

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Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out…

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Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which…

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After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize…

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“This was no fruit of such worlds and suns as shine on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. This was…

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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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Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the…

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More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green,…

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