Hp Lovecraft Quotes

“Lovecraft says he knows about tentacles
but that motherfucker never bedded a girl from
West Chester
and survived

She was a toothache
that one
and she tasted like crack
the best thing about her
was if I was ever hungry
I could always make a meal out of whatever
was making rest at the corners of her mouth
I can't remember her name
as is the case with most of them
then again I can't remember
how many donuts I ate this morning
or how many beers I'll drink tonight,
tomorrow”
― Dave Matthes, Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories

“Most daemoniacal of all shocks is that of the abysmally unexpected and grotesquely unbelievable”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider And Others

“Everything seemed to me tainted with a loathsome contagion, and inspired by a noxious alliance with distorted hidden powers.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“His drinking, of course, only aggravated what it was meant to alleviate.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Well, I should say that the really weird artist has a kind of vision which makes models, or summons up what amounts to actual scenes from the spectral world he lives in.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“And to think of today in contrast, with such pale-pink brains that even a club of supposed artists gets shudders and convulsions if a picture goes beyond the feelings of a Beacon Street tea-table!

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

“Ever new seemed this deathless city of vision, for here time has no power to tarnish or destroy.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“H.P. Lovecraft is a self-admitted early influence on Ligotti’s work. However, in a kind of metaphysical horror story of its own, Ligotti early on subsumed Lovecraft and left his dry husk behind, having taken what sustenance he needed for his own devices. (Most other writers are, by contrast, consumed by Lovecraft when they attempt to devour him.)”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

“They who lose their Hold do so from their own Want of Strength; but desiring to conceal their Weakness, they attribute the Absence of Success to the first Critick that mentions them.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft : The Complete Fiction