10 Quotes By 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 on beauty

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft on business

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
H. P. Lovecraft on dreams

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft on dreams

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft on dreams

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. Lovecraft on fear

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.
H. P. Lovecraft on religion

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.
H. P. Lovecraft on truth

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
H. P. Lovecraft on truth

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
H. P. Lovecraft on work