H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, H. P. Lovecraft Sayings, and H. P. Lovecraft Quotations

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H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

"He enjoys life -- as do all who are spared the curse of intelligence." - in a 1922 letter to Anne Tillery Renshaw

"Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people." - in a 1923 letter to Frank Belknap Long

"In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring." - "The Descendant"

"Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places." - "The Picture in the House"

"That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange aeons even death may die." - "The Call of Cthulhu"

"Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities." - "Herbert West - Re-Animator"

"Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness." - "The Outsider"

"Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way." - "The Rats in the Walls"

"Then the shadows began to gather, first little furtive ones under the table, and then bolder ones in the dark panelled corners." - "The Strange High House in the Mist"

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - "The Call of Cthulhu"

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - "The Call of Cthulhu"

"Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions." - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

"For a ghoul is a ghoul, and at best an unpleasant companion for man." - "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"

"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be." - "The Dunwich Horror"