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#1

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

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

#2

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20165 likes

#3

“It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

193 likes

#4

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

2010 likes

#5

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

tags: beauty, imperfections

3897 likes

#6

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

tags: inspiration

5825 likes

#7

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

8631 likes

#8

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

3274 likes

#9

“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

2205 likes

#10

“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

2426 likes

#11

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

tags: horror, irony

1651 likes

#12

“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

872 likes

#13

“I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

tags: books, library, literature, reading, words

772 likes

#14

“Never Explain Anything”
― H.P. Lovecraft

570 likes

#15

“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

671 likes

#16

“Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: god, mankind, organized-religion, religion

320 likes

#17

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: life

401 likes

#18

“Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

303 likes

#19

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

4280 likes

#20

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”
― Clive Barker

tags: abarat, absolute-midnight, clive-barker, hate, hurt, love, wounds

373 likes

#21

“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”
― Clive Barker, Imajica

269 likes

#22

“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”
― Clive Barker

218 likes

#23

“One man's pornography is another man's theology.”
― Clive Barker

tags: pornography, theology

121 likes

#24

“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred. ”
― Clive Barker

96 likes

#25

“A man kills the thing he loves, and he must die a little himself.”
― Clive Barker, Imajica

93 likes

#26

“We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.”
― Clive Barker, Galilee

98 likes

#27

“Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.”
― Clive Barker

tags: coldheart-canyon

79 likes

#28

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

5543 likes

#29

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, pandora

2824 likes

#30

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: good-evil

2866 likes

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