H.P. Lovecraft
Birthday:
20 August 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Birth Name:
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Height:
180 cm
Born in Providence, Lovecraft was a sickly child whose parents died insane. When he was 16, he wrote the astronomy column in the Providence Tribune. Between 1908 and 1923, he wrote short stories for Weird Tales magazine, among others. He died in Providence, in poverty, on March 15, 1937. His most famous novel is considered to be "At the Mounta...
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Born in Providence, Lovecraft was a sickly child whose parents died insane. When he was 16, he wrote the astronomy column in the Providence Tribune. Between 1908 and 1923, he wrote short stories for Weird Tales magazine, among others. He died in Providence, in poverty, on March 15, 1937. His most famous novel is considered to be "At the Mountains of Madness," about an expedition to the South Pole, which discovers strange creatures beneath a mountain. Show less «
[1921] It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no...Show more »
[1921] It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate. Show less «
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
[epitaph in his gravestone]: I am Providence.
[epitaph in his gravestone]: I am Providence.
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 ...Show more »
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 infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Show less «
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyze than to feel.
I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyze than to feel.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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