Quotes from H. P. Lovecraft

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to do other than to worship it.

I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.