"Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls……" — Thomas Ligotti
"Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page."
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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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More Devastation Quotes
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Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing…
— Jo Bonner
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My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she…
— Caroline Kennedy
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Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
— Nathaniel Branden
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No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to…
— Michael C. Burgess
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction…
— Tim Field
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To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain…
— Norman Lamm
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.
— Sharon Salzberg
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I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks…
— Deacon Jones
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The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and…
— N. Scott Momaday
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look…
— George Eliot
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