All Thomas Ligotti Quotes
- As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce,… Activity
- Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full… Body
- Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… Along
- But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,… Able
- Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness. Artificially
- Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that… Death
- And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are… Descent
- For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better.… Always Tell
- While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty… Agent
- Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous. Inspirational
- My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics. Felt
- Windows are the eyes of the soulless Eye
- Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. Amnesia
- My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions.… All
- The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are… All
- The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story… Ability
- Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access… Access
- To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may… Bitter
- What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for… Actually Happening
- The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight… All
- To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… Activated
- It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. Always Seemed
- I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror. Cold
- This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work… Actually Intensifies
- The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. Another World