"Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in……" — Thomas Ligotti
"Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence."
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33 Quotes by Thomas Ligotti
Thomas Ligotti has 33 quotes on this site.
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As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a…
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Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering…
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Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness…
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But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still…
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Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.
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Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just…
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And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms…
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For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves…
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While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one…
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Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.
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My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.
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Windows are the eyes of the soulless
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Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves…
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
— Jean Baudrillard
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
— Luis Bunuel
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Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate…
— Pat Summitt
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The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask…
— Sparky Anderson
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
— John Guare
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The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to…
— Seal
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To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia
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Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt,…
— Andrea Dworkin
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
— Robert Smithson
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
— Jack Horner
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and…
— Tom Hayden
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