H. P. Lovecraft Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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

• 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

  Spring, Past, Delight

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

• Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Religious, Pain, Feelings

  H.P. Lovecraft (2012). “The Complete Fiction Collection vol III”, p.502, Lulu.com

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