P Lovecraft
P Lovecraft
emotion emotions fear oldest strongest
Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.
philosophy suicidal bored
I am only about half alive a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.
night world chaos
I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.
dream waiting house
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming
dream real differences
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.
dream men cities
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
wise dream hero
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.
dream memories ocean
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
dream business men
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
writing people ordinary
I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.
spring past delight
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.
dream dreamer seekers
For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
christian animal men
Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.
world comic mankind
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.