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H.P. Lovecraft was an American horror fiction writer known for his unique cosmic horror style and Gothic narrative. His works often explore the insignificance of humans in the face of the unknown and omnipotent forces, profoundly influencing horror literature in the second half of the 20th century.

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Famous H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

“After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.”

Knows May Ends Risen

Book:Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

Source: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”

“Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.”

Ends Method Attainment Vigorous

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“Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.”

Knows Ends Care Heaven Safe

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

Ends Song Journey Weary Toil

Book:Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

Source: Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.”

Writing I Can Ends Streets Bears Drug Window Casts Torture Tonight Strain

Book:Dagon

Source: Dagon

“If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!”

Ifs Men Life Inspirational May Ends God Mercy Mad Pity Sane Hideous Callousness

Book:The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

“The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”

Ends Body Hands Doors Window Noise Immense Find Me Slippery End Is Near

Book:The Whisperer in Darkness

Source: The Whisperer in Darkness

“Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.”

Knows Men May Ends Dream Waiting Cities Spread Decay Risen

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_