Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression. H. P. Lovecraft
Depression! It really gets you down.
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Anthony T.Hincks
Sometimes the fastest way down is to jump off a cliff.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Just because you came to the end of your rope, doesn't mean that you were climbing down.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
More Quotes By H. P. Lovecraft
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute...
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
