P Lovecraft
P Lovecraft
fear halloween strong-emotions
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.
horror torture terrible
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
eye idlers lucky
As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.
atheist hypocrite mind
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chance's of theism's truth being to my mind so microscopically small, I would be a pedant and a hypocrite to call myself anything else.
wise dream men
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
brain world horror
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.
mean giving cosmos
It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something. In other words, we are either Englishmen or nothing whatever.
life drinking dancing
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
memories old-things sea
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.
memories reality possibility
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
Do not call up that which you cannot put down.
sleep dark safety
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
book ocean men
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
black fascination form
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.