If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Quote by H P Lovecraft

Topics: H P Lovecraft Quotes

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams...

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams...

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to...

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to...

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never...

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never...

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of...

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of...

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What...

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What...

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth...

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth...

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a...

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a...

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which...

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which...

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those...

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those...

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing...

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing...

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of...

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of...

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an...

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an...

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is...

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is...

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have...

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have...