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

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When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

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