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

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Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

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