For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming..

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything..

Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown ha….

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dr….

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of d….

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut..

Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can….

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 devises, can keep me from….

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 men. This I have k….

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 ignora….

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... cosmos... give….

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life..

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending ….

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?.

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which a….

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane..

Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not invol….

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certa….

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruc….

I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absol….

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide - t….