"What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense……" — Thomas Ligotti
"What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours."
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Thomas Ligotti
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33 Quotes by Thomas Ligotti
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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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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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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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