H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Imagination decides everything.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Seeing is not always believing.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.