H. P. Lovecraft Life Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!