Top Ten Best H. P. Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft) Quotes & Written Works
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives and most famous for the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. He is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, to be one of the greatest Horror writers.The Top Ten
1 Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
2 Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible — though I know not in what proportion — still remains.
3 No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
4 The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
5 Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real & the unreal;that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical & mental media through which we are made conscious of them...
6 The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
7 That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
8 There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
9 Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
10 Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
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