H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm and peace, but these are just small oases. Overall, it is a brutal, terrible experience, and so it salvation is what can you do to alleviate the agony of the human condition, the human predicament? That is what interests me the most.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

I love the majesty of human suffering.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.