H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

I don't ever get to the point where anything is old hat.

I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.

I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.