Existence Quotes by Thomas Ligotti

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we…

— Thomas Ligotti

“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