Quote from H. P. Lovecraft

edit history

Source

Context

H.P. Lovecraft, quoting the Necronomicon in “The Nameless City”

Similar quotes

My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth - that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally - but I didn't want to upset him.

—Jack Handey
“Eternity is born in time, and every time someone dies whom we have loved dearly, eternity can break into our mortal existence a little bit more.”

—Henri J.M. Nouwen
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

—Gandalf
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.

—Yoda
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

—Mark Twain
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

—Mark Twain
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life. ... The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

—Walter Kaufmann
Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

—American Indian Proverb
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

—Carl Sagan (10/03/1996)
Long not for death, nor hanker after life ;
Calmly expect thine own appointed time,
Even as a servant reckons on his hire.

—The Laws of Manu
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

—Richard Dawkins
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

—George W. Bush
Because we humans are aware of the transitory character of our existence, we develop anxiety over death. This anxiety is at least in part alleviated by religious beliefs and rituals, which give meaning to one's own life even though life will end. Anxiety about death is further relieved in the many religions that attribute immortality to the soul, either through successive reincarnations or in the form of life beyond death. Evolution, by making humans intelligent, predisposed us to be religious.

—Francisco J. Ayala (31/07/2009)
Death has us by the scruff of the neck at every moment. (...) To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way contrary to the common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness; let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death. At every instant, let us evoke it in our imagination under all its aspects. In the midst of joy and feasting, let our refrain be one which recalls our human condition… That is what the Egyptians did: in the midst of all their banquets and good cheer, they would bring in a mummified corpse, to serve as a warning to the guests.

—Michel de Montaigne
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

—Francis Bacon
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

—Mark Twain
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment, it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with and it should be treated with honour.

—Martha Graham
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1969)
I used to be a terrible hypochondriac when I was young and a great reader of medical dictionaries. One day I realised that I was not actually frightened of terminal illness but of not getting done the things I wanted to get done.

—A. C. Grayling
Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.

—William Shakespeare

Users who like this quote

nano404

Comments

Quote of the day

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

—Mark Twain

Show a random quote

About Quotiki

Quotiki is a social quotes wiki that lets you quickly find and enjoy quotes. As a member of the community, you can start tagging, rating, submitting and collecting quotes.

Find famous people and your friends in speeches, dialogs, chat logs, quotations, sayings, jokes and more! Tag yourself and other people in your favorite quotes and easily share them with friends.

14933 total quotes.
Phil Newmanski is our newest user. Welcome!

Quotiki! Quotes and Quotations

Quotes