H. P. Lovecraft Quotes and Sayings
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
- H. P. Lovecraft
We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
- H. P. Lovecraft
I couldn’t live a week without a private library - indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
- H. P. Lovecraft
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
- H. P. Lovecraft
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
- H. P. Lovecraft
In a way, crosswords do harm by cluttering up the mind with an aimless heap of unusual words selected purely for mechanical exigencies and having no well-proportioned relation to the needs of graceful discourse.
- H. P. Lovecraft
My fiction can’t be compared with Poe’s or Machen’s, but I take no less pleasure in writing it on that account.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Of course, so far as personal taste goes, I’m no lover of humanity. To me cats are in every way more graceful and worthy of respect - but I don’t try to raise my personal bias to the spurious dignity of a dogmatic generality.
- H. P. Lovecraft
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
- H. P. Lovecraft
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
- H. P. Lovecraft
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Those who have watched the tall, lean, Terrible Old Man in these peculiar conversations, do not watch him again.
- H. P. Lovecraft
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!
- H. P. Lovecraft