H. P. Lovecraft

“Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.”

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”

“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.”

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”

“Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.”

“Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.”

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”

“But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?”

“Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.”

“Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.”