#H.P. Lovecraft quotes

[1introvertedsage]

[funeral]

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulu

[norththestrange]

"I have seen the dark universe yawning where the black planets roll without aim,where they roll in their horror unheeded,without knowledge, or lustre, or name." -H. P. Lovecraft

(Not my art nor do I know if it's "AI" I just don't give a fuck thanks have a great fucking day!)

[emomarktwain]

INCORRECT QUOTE AS THINGS MY FAMILY HAS SAID (PART 20!)

John, walks into Lovecraft's room: glad to see you deciding to-

Lovecraft: No.

Lovecraft proceeds to cover himself in the entire blanket:

[marejadilla]

“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we learn and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.” ― H.P. Lovecraft

[bsdisfreetherapy]

Steinbeck: Are you listening to me? Lovecraft: *nods* Steinbeck: What did I just say? Lovecraft: *nods* Steinbeck: ...

[moonchildsthoughts]

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

- H.P. LOVECRAFT

[quotespile]

Few beings have ever been so impregnated, pierced to the core, by the conviction of the absolute futility of human aspiration. The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail. The human race will disappear. Other races in turn will appear and disappear. The skies will be glacial and empty, traversed by the feeble light of half-dead stars. These too will disappear. Everything will disappear. And human actions are as free and as stripped of meaning as the unfettered movements of the elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, sentiments? Pure ‘Victorian fictions.’ All that exists is egotism. Cold, intact, and radiant.

Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

[thepersonalwords]

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft

[candlelitcorners]

"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."

- H.P. Lovecraft

[synderesis08]

i am an outsider

[litandlifequotes]

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

― H. P. Lovecraft

[bones-ivy-breath]

And in the autumn of the year, when the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon, I sit by the casement and watch that star.

Polaris by H.P. Lovecraft

[mhb-oficial]

🇺🇸 Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.

- H.P. Lovecraft

[quotelr]

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

H.P. Lovecraft

[marejadilla]

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.” ― H.P. Lovecraft