Tag: H. P. Lovecraft
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I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
H. P. Lovecraft
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
H. P. Lovecraft
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From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
H. P. Lovecraft
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We must realise that man’s nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species – if separate species we be – for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
H. P. Lovecraft