P Lovecraft
P Lovecraft
dream memories ocean
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
dream dreamer seekers
For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
christian animal men
Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.
dark mad safety
Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.
men unyielding outsiders
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
spring past delight
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
coffee
I like coffee exceedingly...
space unseen serene
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.
may ends knows
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.
wise dream hero
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.
ignorance men years
It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.
dog horse mistake
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
people matter calm
Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.
inspirational life god
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!