Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft (American Science-fiction Writer)

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937,) fully Howard Phillips Lovecraft, was an American horror, fantasy, and science-fiction writer and poet. This author of eccentric and macabre short novels and stories is considered one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, did not attend college on account of lifelong poor health. As a young man, he supported himself by ghost-writing and text-revising. He lived most of his life in solitude and poverty. His fame as a writer increased after his death, and he became the most influential figure in horror fiction after Edgar Allan Poe.

From 1923, Lovecraft was a regular contributor to the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine Weird Tales. His cult following can be tracked to some 60 stories first published in that magazine. He created what has come to be called the “Cthulhu Mythos,” which believes that the Earth was initially inhabited by fish-like beings called the ‘Old Ones’ who worshipped the jellylike Cthulhu.

Among Lovecraft’s various collections are The Shadow over Innsmouth (1936,) The Outsider and Others (1939,) Dreams and Fancies (1962,) and Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1965.) His short novels include The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1928) and At the Mountains of Madness (1931.)

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We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don’t give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They’re confounded pretty, and that’s all we know and all we need to know!
—H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Cats

Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth’s narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.
—H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Cities, City Life

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
Topics: The Mind

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
Topics: Fear

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
—H. P. Lovecraft

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