H. P. Lovecraft Quotes About Fear

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

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

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness, and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace — not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

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

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.