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H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets; the deserted tomb of the Hydes, an old and exalted family whose last direct descendant had been laid within its black recesses many decades before my birth.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb,
Tagged: Tomb, Hillside, Hydes, Family
“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars….I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness....”
— H. P. Lovecraft, From Beyond
Tagged: demon, Stars, Shadows, Madness, Horror, creepy, Death
“It is good to be a cynic—it is better to be a contented cat—and it is best not to exist at all.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy; Autobiography and Miscellany(H.P. Lovecraft: Collected Essays) by H. P. Lovecraft (2006-01-01)
Tagged: Cynic, Nihilism, cats
“Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
Tagged: Horror, creepy, Cat, Bones, Yellow Eyes, Secrets
“My name is Jervas Dudley, and from earliest childhood I have been a dreamer and a visionary.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb,
Tagged: Childhood, Dreamer, Visionary
“I am Providence, & Providence is myself—together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro’ the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee’s ice-clad peak!”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Letter to James Ferdinand Morton
Tagged: Providence RI, Providence, monument
“Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, and after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
Tagged: Man, Summer, Winter, Patient, Potent, reign
“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Outsider by H. P. Lovecraft(2014-12-13)
Tagged: Outsider, Stranger, Out of Place
“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
Tagged: Boredom, Horror, Commonplace
“The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters 1929-1931(Vol. 3)
Tagged: Horror, Cosmic Horror, creepy, Nature, Concrete
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
Tagged: Horror, Death, creepy
“There was a kind of intoxication in being lord of a visible world (albeit a miniature one) and determining the flow of its events.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Letter to J. Vernon Shea
Tagged: Power Trip, Lord, Congrol, Ego, Intoxication
“I could not help feeling that they were evil things—mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
Tagged: Evil, Mountains, Madness, Abyss
“I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories:(Penguin Orange Collection)
Tagged: Universe, Horror, Spring, Summer, creepy, poison
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
Tagged: Horror, creepy, Memory, Merciful
“Do not call up that which you cannot put down.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Lovecraft Illustrated Volume 12- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Tagged: Karma, Careful What You Wish For
“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let 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, Classic Tales of Horror: A Collection of the Greatest Horror Tales of All-Time: At the Mountains of Madness, Carmilla, The Great God Pan, The ... of the Red Death, The Vampyre(Volume 2)
Tagged: Peace, Safety, Abnormalities, blasphemy, nightmares, Horror, creepy
“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
Tagged: Yog-Sothoth, Old Ones, Serene, Primal, Past, present, Future
“Well—the train sped on, & I experienced silent convulsions of joy in returning step by step to a waking & tri-dimensional life. New Haven—New London—& then quaint Mystic, with its colonial hillside & landlocked cove. Then at last a still subtler magick fill’d the air—nobler roofs & steeples, with the train rushing airily above them on its lofty viaduct—Westerly—in His Majesty’s Province of RHODE-ISLAND & PROVIDENCE-PLANTATIONS! GOD SAVE THE KING!! Intoxication follow’d—Kingston—East Greenwich with its steep Georgian alleys climbing up from the railway—Apponaug & its ancient roofs—Auburn—just outside the city limits—I fumble with bags & wraps in a desperate effort to appear calm—THEN—a delirious marble dome outside the window—a hissing of air brakes—a slackening of speed—surges of ecstasy & dropping of clouds from my eyes & mind—HOME—UNION STATION—PROVIDENCE!!!!”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Letter to Frank Belknap Long
Tagged: Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Haven, Apponaug, East Greenwich, Kingston, Providence RI, New London
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories:(Penguin Orange Collection)
Tagged: Black Seas, Infinity, Knowledge, Dark Age, creepy, Horror, Science, Reality
“West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentler slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat, moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges; but these are all vacant now, the wide chimneys crumbling and the shingled sides bulging perilously beneath low gambrel roofs.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space
Tagged: Arkham, Brooklets, New England, Sunlight, Cottages
“A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep. A cat, however, is never without the potentialities of contentment. Like a superior man, he knows how to be alone and happy. Once he looks about and finds no one to amuse him, he settles down to the task of amusing himself; and no one really knows cats without having occasionally peeked stealthily at some lively and well-balanced kitten which believes itself to be alone.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Cats and Dogs
Tagged: cats and dogs, Dependency, Kittens
“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. They climb to the moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia. The haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands. But the true epicure in the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteems most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, The Picture in the House
Tagged: Horror, creepy, Death, Rhine, Ptolemy, Epicure, Ghastliness, New England, strength, Solitude, Ignorance
“ Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unsparing realism, (not catch-penny romanticism) but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown—the shadow-haunted Outside—we must remember to leave our humanity—and terrestrialism at the threshold.”
— H. P. Lovecraft, Letter to Farnsworth Wright
Tagged: Cosmos, Romanticism, humanity, Outer Space, Good And Evil, Love And Hate
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