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#1

“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

tags: animals

#2

“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

tags: fear-of-unknown

2429 likes

#3

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: heartache, loss, love

3088 likes

#4

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

tags: death

1025 likes

#5

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

11155 likes

#6

“Never Explain Anything”
― H.P. Lovecraft

571 likes

#7

“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, hopelessness

451 likes

#8

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: cthulhu

419 likes

#9

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

6466 likes

#10

“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 the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

tags: dread

874 likes

#11

“Stupidity is a talent for misconception.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

273 likes

#12

“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

92 likes

#13

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

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

3609 likes

#14

“In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

158 likes

#15

“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

tags: dreaming, dreams, insanity, sanity

417 likes

#16

“I like coffee exceedingly...”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: coffee, lovecraft

120 likes

#17

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

1792 likes

#18

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

1601 likes

#19

“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

tags: cats, cynic, existence, suicide

672 likes

#20

“That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

519 likes

#21

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

155 likes

#22

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

tags: beauty, death, poetry, women

1043 likes

#23

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

2203 likes

#24

“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: alcohol, drinking

232 likes

#25

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

tags: beauty, poetry, rhythm

595 likes

#26

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tales and Poems

tags: dream, eternity, mind, mystery, wisdom

379 likes

#27

“Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.”
― H. P. Lovercraft

tags: herbert-west-reanimator

109 likes

#28

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

tags: death, life

529 likes

#29

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: melancholy

1323 likes

#30

“Do not call up that which you cannot put down.”
― H P Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

78 likes

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