Wisdom Quote by Thomas Ligotti Download Open image ““And I succumbed to an ecstatic horror at this insight.”” — Thomas Ligotti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wisdom
“am no stranger to real horrors. But I cannot deny that at this instant I felt a different kind of horror.” — Barry Grant Copy Share Image
“I had a dejected, brooding expression on my face, and I could tell from the reflection in the window that it was also an… — The Harvard Lampoon Copy Share Image
“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.” — Violet Haberdasher Copy Share Image
“I don't know. There's just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings. I remember them so clearly.” — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
“Later, there were times when I was angry with myself for succumbing to that fear. But those with shattered souls find it very difficult… — Elizabeth Smart 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
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
