H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

The strongest passion is fear.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear has been good to yours truly.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Fear is one of those really primal emotions which you don't want to have incredibly exciting modulations and complex harmonies and all that kind of stuff.

There is no worse emotion than fear.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

I am made to tremble and I fear!

Fear is excitement without breath.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.