H. P. Lovecraft Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, House, Waiting

  "The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft, 1926.

• Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Reality, House

  H. P. Lovecraft (2017). “Dreams in the Witch House”, p.3, BookRix

• Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, House, Tears

  H.P. Lovecraft (2002). “Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft”, p.21, Del Rey

• Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Coffee, Two, House

  Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

• While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Real, Writing

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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