P Lovecraft
P Lovecraft
memories way horror
Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.
strange-places strange horror
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
irony horror absent
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
opposites entrepreneur horror
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
order horror cosmic
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
horror torture terrible
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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.
men evil horror
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
emotion emotions fear oldest strongest
Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.
law cosmos fundamentals
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
blank sensible ifs
If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
world pope concerned
So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
lonely thrill woods
No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.
shortcuts thinker primitive
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.