Bones Quote by Thomas Ligotti

While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this…

— Thomas Ligotti

“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we…

— Thomas Ligotti

“With the compelling convincingness of dreams, which are vague yet exact, the ghost voice draws us (to ourselves and all of our component selves),…

— Heinrich Zimmer

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

— Frank Herbert

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to…

— Antonin Artaud

“When we play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.”

— Anonymous

“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness…

— Annie Dillard

“An important spiritual law is here involved. I have explained that you can weaken his prayers by diverting his attention from the Enemy Himself…

— C.S. Lewis

“White people can be so unself-conscious. It’s offensive, charming, and pathetic, all at the same time.”

— Barbara Browning

“The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk.…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another…

— William Irwin Thompson