H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

You think the shadow is the substance.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

That which is cannot be true.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

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

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Truth is always a delusion.