Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. H. P. Lovecraft More Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft More Quotes From H. P. Lovecraft 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. H. P. Lovecraft delightspringpast The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it. H. P. Lovecraft catworshipperfect Never Explain Anything H. P. Lovecraft The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. H. P. Lovecraft comicmankindworld The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. H. P. Lovecraft fascinationblackform Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. H. P. Lovecraft risenendsmay I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. H. P. Lovecraft businessdreammen The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. H. P. Lovecraft strong-emotionshalloweenfear 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. H. P. Lovecraft christiananimalmen The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy. H. P. Lovecraft feetmindchildren Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises. H. P. Lovecraft madnessnoisejustice Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities. H. P. Lovecraft possibilitymemoriesreality I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. H. P. Lovecraft talkingmenreligion Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. H. P. Lovecraft creativeinspirationallife I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life. H. P. Lovecraft suicidalboredphilosophy 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. H. P. Lovecraft ignorancemenyears For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming. H. P. Lovecraft seekersdreamerdream I like coffee exceedingly. H. P. Lovecraft coffee It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests. H. P. Lovecraft safetydarksleep Life is a hideous thing. H. P. Lovecraft hideouslife-is
