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Men Quotes by H P Lovecraft
- Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the...…
- In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.
- Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal
- Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man,…
- Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity,…
- Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
- After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous…
- May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man…
- I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to…
- What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
- I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
- But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
- An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of…
- There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.
- If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
- For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still…
- I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
- There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens,…
- There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
- Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads…
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