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. LovecraftI am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
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. LovecraftWho knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
H. P. LovecraftThe process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. Lovecraft