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101 " Tales of ordinary characters would appeal to a larger class , but I have no wish to make such an appeal . The opinions of the masses are of no interest to me , for praise can truly gratify only when it comes from a mind sharing the author's perspective . There are probably seven persons in all , who really like my work and they are enough . I should write even if I were the only patient reader , for my aim is merely self expression . I could not write about ' ordinary people ' because I am not in the least interested in them . Without interest there can be no art . Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy . It is man's relations to the cosmos - to the unknown - which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination . "
― H.P. Lovecraft
102 " 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 , The Outsider
103 " But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The White Ship
104 " Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. "
105 " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Complete Fiction
106 " Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. "
107 " What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! "
108 " The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life. "
109 " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown "
― H.P. Lovecraft , Supernatural Horror in Literature
110 " I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. "
111 " 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. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Call of Cthulhu
112 " In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
113 " The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Dunwich Horror and Others
114 " No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
115 " I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , From Beyond
116 " I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
117 " 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. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
118 " I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. "
119 " Do not call up that which you cannot put down. "
― H.P. Lovecraft , The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
120 " The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. 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. 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. "