Poetry Quote by H.P. Lovecraft — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,”

“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.”

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”

“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value.... 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. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.”

“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.”

“Where do the words go”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

“We drift apart from each other until we are so alone the ache becomes routine.”

“some moments are nice, some are”

“The gentle downward slope gets steeper”

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”