"We live in a permanent state of bad……" — Thomas Ligotti
"We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species."
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33 Quotes by Thomas Ligotti
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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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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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