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H. P. Lovecraft Quotes about Life

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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H. P. Lovecraft
Life, Religion, Trying
H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.41, Lulu.com

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

H. P. Lovecraft
Life, Drinking, Dancing

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
Inspirational, Life, God
H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.123, Race Point Publishing

Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.

H. P. Lovecraft
Life, Stars, Unique

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
Inspirational, Life, Unexpected
H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.16, Penguin

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

H. P. Lovecraft
Inspirational, Life, Creative
H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.414, OUP Oxford

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

H. P. Lovecraft
Life, Character, Men
Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

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