P Lovecraft
P Lovecraft
spheres reason source
The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.
simple may able
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.
dream real law
I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether I am asleep or awake--whether the environment and laws which affect me are external and permanent, or the transitory products of my own brain.
littles might matter
There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand prepared for any sort of action at any time.
stars children dark
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
nightmare scream hours
And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.
method ends attainment
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
night profound imagination
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly, no one can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination.
hopeful knows zealot
In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!
thinking used should
Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it...
mind wish atheism
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
doubt narrative authenticity
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.
ideas giving tolerance
Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
giving littles needs
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!