“God was long gone before Nietzsche made his death certificate into a slogan, but no one has yet written the obituary of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“From where we stand, immortality and death are synonymous: a two-headed monster of semantics. Having no value for us except as “endness,”… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“How much nonsense can we take in our lives? And is there any way we can escape it? No, there is not.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“God is dead,” wrote Mainländer, “and His death was the life of the world.” Once the great individuation had been initiated, the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the darkness, the eyes… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“God is dead,” wrote Mainländer, “and His death was the life of the world.” Once the great individuation had been accomplished, the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Subsequently there ensues an epoch of complex, proliferating intrigues and conspiracies among the ranks of double agents, whose agendas become so densely intertwined that… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this fact plays… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work of magic… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“The darkness of the grotesque is an immortal enigma: in all legends of the dead, in all the tales of creatures of the night,… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“The dismembered limbs of dolls and puppets are strewn about everywhere. Posters, signs, billboards, and leaflets of various sorts are scattered around like playing… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding of the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
“Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life’s rattle and hum. Without a “yes” in our hearts, nothing would… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share
