I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. H. P. Lovecraft More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft More Quotes From 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. 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. 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 and not interfere with other people. H. P. Lovecraft calm matter people 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 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 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 In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly. H. P. Lovecraft records real beautiful
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