Quote

Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.

H. P. Lovecraft

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

H. P. Lovecraft
Age: 46 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 20
Died: 1937
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft
Ward Phillips
HP Lovecraft
Richard Raleigh
Edgar Softly
Augustus T. Swift
Lewis Theobald
Jr.
Albert Frederick Willie
Humphrey Littlewit
Traditional
Uniformly
Equal
Coexist
Personal
Widely
Either
Races
Race
Territory
Folkways
Whether
Cast
Aloofness
Two
Casts
Peaceably
Cannot
Permanent
Dissimilar

More quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

Image
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone perhaps more alone than he can realise.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H. P. Lovecraft
Image
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