Top 380 H.P. Lovecraft Quotes (2024 Update)
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H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Could it be that the dream-soul inhabiting this inferior body was desperately struggling to speak things which the simple and halting tongue of dulness could not utter?”

251. “Could it be that the dream-soul inhabiting this inferior body was desperately struggling to speak things which the simple and halting tongue of dulness could not utter?”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “They said it had been there before D’Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods.”

252. “They said it had been there before D’Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “This man bore no resemblance to the bearded, grizzled Akeley of the snapshot; but was a younger and more urban person, fashionably dressed, and wearing only a small, dark moustache.”

253. “This man bore no resemblance to the bearded, grizzled Akeley of the snapshot; but was a younger and more urban person, fashionably dressed, and wearing only a small, dark moustache.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end.”

254. “Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “What we did see – for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned – was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist’s “thing that should not be”;.”

255. “What we did see – for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned – was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist’s “thing that should not be”;.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound – the verminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats.”

256. “This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound – the verminous slithering of ravenous, gigantic rats.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He.”

257. “For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.”

258. “There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.”

259. “There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “I have frequently wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong.”

260. “I have frequently wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.”

261. “Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches... men should not have the heads of crocodiles...”

262. “Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches... men should not have the heads of crocodiles...”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “The mere telling helps me to restore confidence in my own faculties; to reassure myself that I was not simply the first to succumb to a contagious nightmare hallucination.”

263. “The mere telling helps me to restore confidence in my own faculties; to reassure myself that I was not simply the first to succumb to a contagious nightmare hallucination.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.”

264. “Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon – but of these things I must not now speak.”

265. “Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon – but of these things I must not now speak.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance – or identity – were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.”

266. “For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance – or identity – were the face and hands of Henry Wentworth Akeley.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “You drug me, and then ask me to walk! Frank, you’re as unreasonable as an artist.”

267. “You drug me, and then ask me to walk! Frank, you’re as unreasonable as an artist.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of night-gaunts.”

268. “All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of night-gaunts.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day’s, or a year’s, or a lustrum’s journey.”

269. “Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day’s, or a year’s, or a lustrum’s journey.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those ways were the sole makers of their present thoughts and judgments, and the sole guides and standards in a meaningless universe without fixed aims or stable points of reference.”

270. “Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those ways were the sole makers of their present thoughts and judgments, and the sole guides and standards in a meaningless universe without fixed aims or stable points of reference.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down to abysses of nighted secrets, of complex angles that led through invisible walls to other regions of space and time, and of hideous exchanges of personality that permitted explorations in remote and forbidden places, on other worlds, and in different space-time continua.”

271. “He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down to abysses of nighted secrets, of complex angles that led through invisible walls to other regions of space and time, and of hideous exchanges of personality that permitted explorations in remote and forbidden places, on other worlds, and in different space-time continua.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.”

272. “There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Here, on a hellishly ancient table-land fully twenty thousand feet high, and in a climate deadly to habitation since a pre-human age not less than five hundred thousand years ago, there stretched nearly to the vision’s limit a tangle of orderly stone which only the desperation of mental self-defense could possibly attribute to any but a conscious and artificial cause.”

273. “Here, on a hellishly ancient table-land fully twenty thousand feet high, and in a climate deadly to habitation since a pre-human age not less than five hundred thousand years ago, there stretched nearly to the vision’s limit a tangle of orderly stone which only the desperation of mental self-defense could possibly attribute to any but a conscious and artificial cause.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world, where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui.”

274. “Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world, where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “The square-paned windows were coated with a thick, dewlike moisture;.”

275. “The square-paned windows were coated with a thick, dewlike moisture;.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Good God! What eldritch dream-world was this into which he had blundered?”

276. “Good God! What eldritch dream-world was this into which he had blundered?”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.”

277. “For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Again there was silence – a silence as of consummated Evil brooding above its unnamable triumph.”

278. “Again there was silence – a silence as of consummated Evil brooding above its unnamable triumph.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Was tempted to quote Walden – “Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?” – but refrained. How can I get lonely, I asked, when there’s still so much to read?”

279. “Was tempted to quote Walden – “Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?” – but refrained. How can I get lonely, I asked, when there’s still so much to read?”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “To hint to unimaginative people of a horror beyond all human conception – a horror of houses and blocks and cities leprous and cancerous with evil dragged from elder worlds – would be merely to invite a padded cell instead of restful rustication, and Malone was a man of sense despite his mysticism.”

280. “To hint to unimaginative people of a horror beyond all human conception – a horror of houses and blocks and cities leprous and cancerous with evil dragged from elder worlds – would be merely to invite a padded cell instead of restful rustication, and Malone was a man of sense despite his mysticism.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.”

281. “Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “We can take the shuttle at the South Station for Battery Street, and after that the walk isn’t much.”

282. “We can take the shuttle at the South Station for Battery Street, and after that the walk isn’t much.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “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.”

283. “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.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me...”

284. “All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me...”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “The waves from that thing are waking a thousand sleeping senses in us; senses which we inherit from aeons of evolution from the state of detached electrons to the state of organic humanity.”

285. “The waves from that thing are waking a thousand sleeping senses in us; senses which we inherit from aeons of evolution from the state of detached electrons to the state of organic humanity.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.”

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

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.”

287. “Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of “white trash” in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.”

288. “Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of “white trash” in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable.”

289. “One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, hence the relative position of everything else seemed phantasmally variable.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “I shuddered oddly in some of the far corners; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple.”

290. “I shuddered oddly in some of the far corners; for certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.”

291. “The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.”

292. “The daemon wind died down, and the bloated, fungoid moon sank reddeningly in the west.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges.”

293. “Without warning, I heard the heavy door behind me creak slowly open upon its rusted hinges.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “He led me out of that tangle of alleys in another direction, it seems, for when we sighted a lamp-post we were in a half-familiar street with monotonous rows of mingled tenement blocks and old houses. Charter Street, it turned out to be, but I was too flustered to notice just where we hit.”

294. “He led me out of that tangle of alleys in another direction, it seems, for when we sighted a lamp-post we were in a half-familiar street with monotonous rows of mingled tenement blocks and old houses. Charter Street, it turned out to be, but I was too flustered to notice just where we hit.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages sent to earth to show that they are not dead. For poets are the dreams of Gods, and in each and every age someone hath sung unknowingly the message and the promise from the lotosgardens beyond the sunset.”

295. “This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages sent to earth to show that they are not dead. For poets are the dreams of Gods, and in each and every age someone hath sung unknowingly the message and the promise from the lotosgardens beyond the sunset.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Nahum did not send her to the county asylum, but let her wander about the house as long as she was harmless to herself and others. Even when her expression changed he did nothing. But when the boys grew afraid of her, and Thaddeus nearly fainted at the way she made faces at him, he decided to keep her locked in the attic.”

296. “Nahum did not send her to the county asylum, but let her wander about the house as long as she was harmless to herself and others. Even when her expression changed he did nothing. But when the boys grew afraid of her, and Thaddeus nearly fainted at the way she made faces at him, he decided to keep her locked in the attic.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.”

297. “I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs;.”

298. “Masson disliked and respected the ferocious little rodents, for he knew the danger that lurked in their flashing, needle-sharp fangs;.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.”

299. “Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Quote: “Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made.”

300. “Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

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