The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Understanding, Humanity, Mind & Apprehension, CreationH. P. Lovecraft in The Call of CthulhuI have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.
If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!
H. P. Lovecraft in The TempleReligion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could.
H. P. LovecraftUnhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
H. P. LovecraftThe oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
FearH. P. LovecraftCats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
H. P. LovecraftWe live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H. P. Lovecraft