The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
H. P. LovecraftOcean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. LovecraftBunch 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. LovecraftThe most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.
H. P. LovecraftI am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalismโreligion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.
H. P. Lovecraft