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Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

“The greatest human achievements have never been for profit.”

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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. more

“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.”

Men Book Earth Night Dark Sky Moon Terror Eclipse

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Source: THE DREAMLANDS SERIES: 20+ Gruesome Tales of Terror in One Premium Edition: The Dream Cycle: Beyond the Wall of Sleep, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, From Beyond, The Nameless City, Ex Oblivione, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Polaris, Hypnosäó_

“Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.”

Consciousness Greater Concern Impression Rising Rise Above Seeming Menace Crawling Nameless Unheard Ghastly Fear Of The Unknown Abhorrent

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

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

“I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.”

Ifs Government Wish Intellectual Safety Extremes Secure Artistic Arrogant Arbitrary Herds Civilisation Menace Coarse

Book:Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

Source: Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft

“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”