H. P. Lovecraft Quotes about Memories

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Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.

Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.

H. P. Lovecraft

Memories, Reality, Possibility

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

H. P. Lovecraft

Memories, Sometimes, Merciful

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction”, p.222, H. P. Lovecraft

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Dream, Memories, Ocean

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_”, p.198, e-artnow

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Memories, Sadness, Childhood

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, H. P. Lovecraft

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

H. P. Lovecraft

Memories, Way, Horror

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.274, e-artnow

The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.

H. P. Lovecraft

Memories, Old Things, Sea

H.P. Lovecraft (2012). “The Complete Fiction Collection vol III”, p.241, Lulu.com

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.

H. P. Lovecraft

Memories, Real, Artist

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.276, e-artnow

It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics, & in them there is not an abyss of agonising cosmic horror that I have not explored. I don't have such dreams now - but the memory of them will never leave me. It is undoubtedly from them that the darkest & most gruesome side of my fictional imagination is derived.

H. P. Lovecraft

Dream, Memories, Real

Letter to Harry O. Fischer (late February 1937), in "Selected Letters V, 1934-1937" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (pp. 416-417), 1976.