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

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It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics, & in them there is not an abyss of agonising cosmic horror that I have not explored. I don't have such dreams now - but the memory of them will never leave me. It is undoubtedly from them that the darkest & most gruesome side of my fictional imagination is derived.

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

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

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

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