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“I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

“A mountain walked or stumbled.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“I have said that I dwelt apart from the visible world, but I have not said that I dwelt alone.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House

“The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model

“When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it’s time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me—to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Collection

“I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Complete Collection of H.P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks with 100+ Audio Books Included

“I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House

“All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Once in a while, though, he could not help seeing how shallow, fickle, and meaningless all human aspirations are, and how emptily our real impulses contrast with those pompous ideals we profess to hold.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

“I. Introduction”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature: Revised and Enlarged

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“It is absurd to say that mathematicians have not discovered the fourth dimension.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
― Emil Cioran

“The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora