H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

H. P. Lovecraft

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• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Cheer

• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Question
  • Effect
  • Often

• For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Love
  • Me
  • Boy

• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tired
  • Busy
  • Pursuing

• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Now

• Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Crisis

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Me

• I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Plant
  • Seen
  • Pilot

• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Appreciation
  • Lie
  • Roots

• In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • Men
  • You

• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Invasion

• Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Doubt

• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Good

• When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book
  • Mother

• You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big bummer.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Heartbreak

• As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

  

  Dwight Morrow
  • Good
  • Government
  • Self

• I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more #‎ romantic than the present day

  

  Fabian Perez
  • Time
  • Work
  • Present

• If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • First
  • Saved

• Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Done
  • Action
  • Moral

• It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • People
  • Impression
  • Standards

• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft