List of H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

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H. P. Lovecraft
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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 an eternal survival of personality exist. they are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and i am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that i don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. in theory i am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence i must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
Atheist Thinking Hair
Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.
Reality Anomalies Phases
Though not a participant in the business of life; i am, like the character of addison and steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.
Life Character Men
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
Men Towns
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. one loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of pope.
School Artist Mad
The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life so strongly conduced toward a feeling of the supernatural, that we need not wonder at the thoroughness with which man's very hereditary essence has become saturated with religion and superstition.
Dream Spiritual Men
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, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the puritan imagination.
Night Profound Imagination
Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in the colour out of space being the only one of the lot which i take any pride in.
Pride Space Monsters
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 doom overtook the elder world. later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of mercury. but there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.
Men Vegetables Civilization
The glorious dryden, refiner and purifier of english verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.
Rhyme Glorious Verses
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 falls, i passed close to the marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. the building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which i took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the revolution by the present town square.
Fall Squares Bridges
It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
Fear Hot Abnormal
  • Born: August 20, 1890
  • Died: March 15, 1937
  • Occupation: Author
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