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

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I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.

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

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

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

- H. P. Lovecraft

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

- H. P. Lovecraft

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

- 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

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