Author of quotes: Howard Phillips Lovecraft



Children hear everything - adults simply do not notice them during conversations.
№ 461189   Added Viker 13-01-2024 / 12:07
... but you know how weak a person is.
№ 461188   Added Viker 13-01-2024 / 12:07
Everyone stopped being afraid of death. She retreated. You lived forever, unless... you died in a war with other savages, unless you were sacrificed, unless you were bitten by a poisonous snake, unless you burned from a fleeting disease. In a word, unless something unexpected happened to you before the final relocation to the water. Now everyone was preparing not for death, but for a change in appearance and lifestyle. The fear has disappeared.
№ 461187   Added Viker 13-01-2024 / 12:07
It would seem that it’s time to get used to reacting more calmly to everything, and maybe even become bitter, but in life there are such experiences that hurt especially deeply, it is impossible to heal from them, the wound continues to ache, and sensitivity becomes so aggravated that it is enough to relive fatal events in memory, and pain and horror flare up again.
№ 461186   Added Viker 13-01-2024 / 12:07
Quote in English
Quote Explanation: With this phrase, H. F. Lovecraft begins the introduction to his Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927). Its meaning lies in the fact that the key fear is the state of the unknown, and all other fears are based on it. Accordingly, it is possible to fight fear by obtaining information about the object of fear. Most fears become irrational and recede once we know a little more about their source.
№ 446348   Added MegaMozg 11-11-2022 / 00:33
But in the universe, along with bitterness, there is also sweetness, and the name of this sweetness is oblivion.
№ 419003   Added MegaMozg 13-05-2021 / 22:00
And then I decided that I would climb this tower, no matter what it cost me, for it is better to look at the sky once and perish than to live forever without seeing the light of day.
№ 419002   Added MegaMozg 13-05-2021 / 21:57
We will meet again - maybe it will happen in the luminous nebula of the Orion belt, maybe on the open plateaus of prehistoric Asia, maybe today in a dream that you will forget in the morning, or maybe in some new forms that will take on eternity after the death of the Sun. systems.
№ 409460   Added MegaMozg 15-12-2020 / 21:42
Only a damn fool would expect from people of one culture to sit quietly when their country be overrun by hordes of foreigners who - whether equal, superior to or inferior to them from the point of view of biology is so opposite to them in the physical, emotional and mental manifestations that harmonious coexistence is virtually not possible.


Quote in English
Quote Explanation: Letter of September 27, 1926.
№ 396055   Added Viker 24-05-2020 / 13:50
The end nobody knows. Rose is able to fall, and descended to climb.
№ 386594   Added MegaMozg 23-01-2020 / 20:25
Knowledge and useful experience failed to reveal it [beauty], and then he turned to fancy and illusion, and found the beauty of the very close - in the misty memories of childhood and childhood dreams.
№ 385572   Added MegaMozg 04-01-2020 / 19:10
Many people do not like to live with such a person, but Arthur Jermyn they coexisted.
№ 354317   Added MegaMozg 28-12-2018 / 04:20
If we knew who you are actually, I would have done as sir Arthur Jermyn one evening, poured myself a combustible mixture, and podeschi clothing match.
№ 354316   Added MegaMozg 28-12-2018 / 04:19
Life is a terrible thing, and for some devilish allusions, coming to us from the depths of the unknown, we can guess that actually, things are a thousand times worse.
№ 354315   Added MegaMozg 28-12-2018 / 04:18
Something in my appearance and speech scared people and awakened in them a sense of antipathy, as if I was being infinitely far from all that they considered healthy and natural.
№ 261593   Added MegaMozg 18-01-2017 / 21:00