My life lies not among, Letter to Lillian D. Clark (29 March 1926), quoted in. ― H.P. Without our nationality—that is, our culture-grouping—we are merely wretched nuclei of agony and bewilderment in the midst of alien and directionless emptiness . Born date August 20, 1890 There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. As for your artificial conception of "splendid & traditional ways of life"—I feel quite confident that you are very largely constructing a mythological idealisation of something which never truly existed; a conventional picture based on the perusal of books which followed certain hackneyed lines in the matter of incidents, sentiments, & situations, & which never had a close relationship to the actual societies they professed to depict . Reprinted in. Something terrible came to the hills and valleys on that meteor, and something terrible — though I know not in what proportion — still remains. There, however, I soon became exasperated by the literal Puritanical doctrines, and constantly shocked my preceptors by expressing scepticism of much that was taught me. I never take offence at any genuine effort to wrest the truth or deduce a rational set of values from the confused phenomena of the external world. They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate. HP Lovecraft, Atheists, Agnostics, Elder Gods. Lovecraft, quote from Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, “Vorsicht ist die erste Sorge jener, die gelegentliche Scharlatanerie und Betrug gewöhnt sind.” (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. ― H.P. Joshi, p. 307, Letter to August Derleth (21 November 1930), in, Letter to August Derleth (25 December 1930), quoted in "H.P. . One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. . This was no breath from the skies whose motions and dimensions our astronomers measure or deem too vast to measure. These boys are the Bedes and Almins of a new, encroaching, and apparently inferior culture. 27 quotes from The Call of Cthulhu: ‘Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.’ I'm sure his wearing deodorant and - for once-it's working. The Cthulhu Mythos, also known as the Lovecraft Mythos, is a shared fictional universe created in the 1920s by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.During the latter part of Lovecraft's life, there was much borrowing of story elements among the authors of the "Lovecraft Circle", and many others, a clique of writers with whom Lovecraft corresponded. Surely you can see the profound and abysmal difference between this emotional attitude and the attitude of the democratic reformer who becomes wildly excited over the "wrongs of the masses". Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. In that sense, he really went the limit of disillusionment in assuming the meaningless, disordered, foundationless universe that became the starting point for later figures in science and philosophy....Although Lovecraft did have his earthbound illusions, at the end of the day he existed in no man’s land of nihilism and disillusionment. Of its origin, apart from the erratic and unbelievable tales extorted from the captured members, absolutely nothing was to be discovered; hence the anxiety of the police for any antiquarian lore which might help them to place the frightful symbol, and through it track down the cult to its fountain-head. Explore fungus_homunculus' photos on Flickr. … The whole basis of religion is a symbolic emotionalism which modern knowledge has rendered meaningless & even unhealthy. Flying Spaghetti Monster & Cthulhu Funny Tshirt by Offworld Designs. Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings and goings, and guessed so many of their secrets that he was deemed half a god himself. I am Providence, and Providence is myself—together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee's ice-clad peak! Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Lovecraft, quote from Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, “Nyarlathotep ... das kriechende Chaos ... Ich bin der letzte ... Ich werde es der lauschenden Leere verkünden ...” For instance, he has the idea that I place an exaggerated. But Lovecraft’s feebleness gave his writing its one strength: his tales can be frightening. It is to our interest to keep our own culture alive as long as we can—and if possible to reserve and defend certain areas against the onslaughts of the enemy. Born place: in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States "Okay, Derek always weired me out, but the wolf man stuff is seriously creepy. "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927). Even the dry tips of the lingering hedge-mustard, grey and blighted, and the fringe on the roof of the standing democrat-wagon were unstirred. I'm really frightfully human and love all mankind, and all that sort of thing. Attributed to Lovecraft by Harold Farnese, who corresponded with Lovecraft briefly, later presented by August Derleth as a direct quote; but as discussed on. Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?". Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly. No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities. Lovecraft, quote from Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. This was aggravated, of course, by the Puritan policy of rigorously suppressing all the natural outlets of excuberant feeling--music, laughter, colour, pageantry, and so on. What is more important, is to perpetuate those things of beauty which are of real value because involving actual sense-impressions rather than vapid theories. Let me have normal American faces in the streets to give the aspect of home and a white man's country, and I ask no more of featherless bipeds. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. ""You know what will really help? I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. H.P. This page was last edited on 29 July 2020, at 21:05. pages, Rating: There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. It is very easy to distinguish a sincere, impersonal difference of opinion and tastes from the arbitrary, ill-motivated, and irrational belittlement which springs from a hostile desire to push another down and which constitutes real offensiveness. The window! ― H.P. ― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Howl and Other Poems, “With you, I am Eve. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. Instead of the poems I had hoped for, there came only a shuddering blackness and ineffable loneliness; and I saw at last a fearful truth which no one had ever dared to breathe before — the unwhisperable secret of secrets — The fact that this city of stone and stridor is not a sentient perpetuation of Old New York as London is of Old London and Paris of Old Paris, but that it is in fact quite dead, its sprawling body imperfectly embalmed and infested with queer animate things which have nothing to do with it as it was in life. . Beast? . Lovecraft Quotes. Such debate is really a highly valuable—almost indispensable—ingredient of life; because it enables us to test our own opinions and amend them if we find them in any way erroneous or unjustified. ― H.P. What does the condition of the rabble matter? I hope you’ve all gotten yourself straight with the big guy in the red suit. Joshi, p. 584, It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of, Letter to August Derleth (16 May 1931), responding to Derleth's suggestion that he call the interconnected mythology of his stories (what would later be known as the, Nothing must disturb my undiluted Englishry — God Save The King! All I want is to know things. Some of the most literarily attractive ages had a coarseness, stridency, & squalor which we would find insupportable . If it is for us to safeguard and preserve the conditions which produce great abbeys, and palaces, and picturesque walled town, and vivid sky-lines of steeples and domes, and luxurious tapestries, and fascinating books, paintings and statuary, and colossal organs and noble music, and dramatic deeds on embattled fields — these are all there is of life: take them away and we have nothing which a man of taste or spirit would care to live for. It is a weakness basically—or, in some cases, and ostentation of secure superiority—but its net effect is desirable; hence it is, on the whole, praiseworthy. It was like the others, yet incalculably denser; a sticky clammy mass, if such terms can be applied to analogous qualities in a non-material sphere. . Zoölogists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50—but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers—the aristocratic, epicurean philosopher who knows what he wants and tells interlopers to go to hell. . As for showers, they're a little hard to come by on the street, and we won't look much better soon. Deodorant - "I raised my hand to cut her off. that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but ― H.P. Therefore it may be taken as axiomatic that the people of a place matter absolutely nothing to me except as components of the general landscape and scenery. Letter to Robert E. Howard (16 August 1932), in. Letter to C.L. ― H.P.