Collected Essays 5 Quotes

“It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

“It is good to be a cynic--it is better to be a contented cat--and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world--we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

“Al fin puede admitir voluntariamente que los deseos, esperanza y valores de la humanidad son asuntos del todo irrelevantes frente a a la ciega maquinaria cósmica. Considera la felicidad como un fantasma ético cuyo simulacro no alcanza a nadie de forma completa e incluso de refilón a muy pocos y cuya posición como objetivo de todos los esfuerzos humanos es una mezcla grotesca de farsa y tragedia.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

“De modo que el buscador de paraísos no es mas que una víctima de mitos establecidos o de su propia imaginación.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany