H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

H. P. Lovecraft

Quotes to Explore

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

Sam Harris
- Thinking
- Long
- Day
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

Malorie Blackman
- Life
- Up
- You
These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.

Ingrid Betancourt
- Life
- Children
- Father
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

Candace Kita
- Life
- Up
- Home
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Babasaheb
- People
- Life
- Society
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Barbra Streisand
- Life
- Done
- Feeling