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“For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

Source: The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature: Revised and Enlarged

“It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming…”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

Source: Night Ocean et autres nouvelles

“Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.”

H.P. Lovecraft book The Rats in the Walls

Source: The Rats in the Walls

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“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 book The Temple

Source: The Temple

“I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

Source: Nemesis

“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 (1890–1937) American author

“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 (1890–1937) American author

"Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927)
Non-Fiction
Variant: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
Source: The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

“We shall dive down through black abysses… and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“incurable lover of the grotesque”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

H.P. Lovecraft quote: “Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.”

“Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

"Herbert West: Re-Animator" in "Home Brew" Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1922)
Fiction

H.P. Lovecraft quote: “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“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.”

H.P. Lovecraft book The Call of Cthulhu

Variant: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Source: The Call of Cthulhu

“Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises…”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.”

H.P. Lovecraft book The Thing on the Doorstep

Source: The Thing on the Doorstep

H.P. Lovecraft quote: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”

H.P. Lovecraft book The Nameless City

Variant: That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Source: The Nameless City

„A legnagyobb borzalom gyakran kegyes módon bénítja meg az emlékezetet.”

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