I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

H. P. Lovecraft

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All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is... by H. P. Lovecraft

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me.

H. P. Lovecraft
black infinite want
I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the... by H. P. Lovecraft

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

H. P. Lovecraft
ordinary writing people
Do not call up any that you can not put down. by H. P. Lovecraft

Do not call up any that you can not put down.

H. P. Lovecraft
Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life. by H. P. Lovecraft

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

H. P. Lovecraft
aptitude
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed. by H. P. Lovecraft

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

H. P. Lovecraft
wise dream men

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.

H. P. Lovecraft
concrete horror order

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

H. P. Lovecraft
saint christian animal
Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm a... by H. P. Lovecraft

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

H. P. Lovecraft
calm matter people
incurable lover of the grotesque by H. P. Lovecraft

incurable lover of the grotesque

H. P. Lovecraft
grotesque lovers

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

H. P. Lovecraft
modern able light

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dream; but sometimes in the autumn, about two in the morning when winds and animals howl dismally, there comes from inconceivable depths below a damnable suggestions of rhythmical throbbing ... and I feel that the transition of Juan Romero was a terrible one indeed.

H. P. Lovecraft
autumn dream morning

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

H. P. Lovecraft
strong religious dark
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountaino... by H. P. Lovecraft

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

H. P. Lovecraft
ocean white blue

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
good-life hate real
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books... by H. P. Lovecraft

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

H. P. Lovecraft
ocean men book

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

H. P. Lovecraft
fire would-be world

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

H. P. Lovecraft
grace stupid past

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

H. P. Lovecraft
expression self writing

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

H. P. Lovecraft
prejudice race age

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
shadow substance reality