“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
“I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.” — H.P. Lovecraft
“It’s a pretty old world, after all, & we shall never learn much about the inner nature of things…” — H.P. Lovecraft, In a letter to Clark Ashton Smith, May 14 1926
“Nothing matters, but it’s perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.” — H.P. Lovecraft, In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, October 7 1923
“When Kleiner showed me the sky-line of New York I told him that man is like the coral insect — designed to build vast, beautiful, mineral things for the moon to delight in after he is dead.” — H.P. Lovecraft, In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, May 3 1922
“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.” — H.P. Lovecraft, In a letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, April 23 1921
“Round pegs find round holes, square pegs find square holes. And by the same token, albeit with rather greater difficulty, I am sure that there must somewhere be a corresponding hole for such a peg as proverbial metaphor may dub trapezohedral!” — H.P. Lovecraft, excerpt from a job application he once wrote :D
“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “Supernatural Horror in Literature”
“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “Supernatural Horror in Literature”
“If that abyss and what it held were real, there is no hope. Then, all too truly, there lies upon this world of man a mocking and incredible shadow out of time.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “The Shadow Out of Time”