H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

Death does not exist.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready; life has not happened. We have not known the ecstasy which life is; we have not known the bliss life is; we have not known anything. We have just been breathing in and out. We have been just existing. Life has been just a hope and death is coming near. And if life has not yet happened and death happens before it, of course, obviously, we will be afraid because we would not like to die.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Where do you go when you die? The same place you were before you were born; nowhere! It's over!