H P Lovecraft Quotes

H P Lovecraft Quote of the day

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.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the esoteric stuff because he knew it would tick people off and freak them out.

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.

I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.

When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly

Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.

There was something very fishy about Riley Bay.

It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man

Shall I compare thee to a Shoggoth?

It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

I know always that I am an outsider

If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.

Don't let your past dictate your future,

Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You’re… you’re tearing me apart!