H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

None can hold fortune still and make it last.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

Fortune soon tires of carrying anyone long on her shoulders.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Time brings all things to pass.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.