Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.

H. P. Lovecraft's Popular Quotes

Do not call up any that you can not put down.

- H. P. Lovecraft

Never Explain Anything

- H. P. Lovecraft

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

- H. P. Lovecraft

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

- H. P. Lovecraft

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 over the totter…

- H. P. Lovecraft

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

- H. P. Lovecraft

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

- H. P. Lovecraft

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

- H. P. Lovecraft

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