(8 quotes found)
“The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
H. P Lovecraft
“Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.”
“The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
“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.”
“All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.”
“It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be sufficient, but many things in the life of Herbert West were uncommon.”
“If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set fire to his clothing one night.”
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with stranger aeons, even Death may die.”
