Thinking Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

10 Thinking quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft’s ten concise statements invite you to contemplate the mysterious side of the mind. They’re a compact way to glimpse his dark, speculative perspective.

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I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

H. P. Lovecraft

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

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Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what…

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The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does…

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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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All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or…

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My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to…

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I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself…

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It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really…

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Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of…

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