H. P. Lovecraft (American - Novelist)
August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
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