To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“The world dotes on its lunatics, whether saintly or sadistic, and commemorates their careers. Psychopaths make terrific material for news agencies and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“When I first took this job at the factory it was not my intention to work there very long, for I once… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times I had the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair.… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“How can the disease be cured of itself?' you asked them. 'My body — a tumor that was once delivered from 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
