H. P. Lovecraft Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life, Religion, Trying

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.41, Lulu.com

• Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life, Drinking, Dancing

• Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Inspirational, Life, Unexpected

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.16, Penguin

• If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Inspirational, Life, God

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.123, Race Point Publishing

• Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Inspirational, Life, Creative

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.414, OUP Oxford

• Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life, Stars, Unique

• Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Life, Character, Men

  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.

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