"And the worst possible thing we could know……" — Thomas Ligotti
"And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people."
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Thomas Ligotti
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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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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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Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.
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More Descent Quotes
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
— Tia Carrere
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of…
— Franz Boas
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The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African…
— Hillary Clinton
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
— Anaxagoras
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
— Anaxagoras
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It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species';…
— Charles Darwin
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits…
— Mark Twain
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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but…
— Charles Darwin
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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