Ligotti Quotes: top 69 famous quotes about Ligotti

Ligotti Quotes & Sayings

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When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes. — Thomas Ligotti

Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits. — Thomas Ligotti

Whether you think consciousness to be a benefit or a horror, this is only what you think - and nothing else. — Thomas Ligotti

For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them from the rest of creation. — Thomas Ligotti

We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think. — Thomas Ligotti

It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes. — Thomas Ligotti

Everything tears away at everything else ... forever. — Thomas Ligotti

And we will persist in chasing the impossible until we are no more. — Thomas Ligotti

The place was also slightly haunted, — Thomas Ligotti

Is there really anything behind our smiles and tears but an evolutionary slip-up? — Thomas Ligotti

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'. — Thomas Ligotti

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. — Thomas Ligotti

Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell. — Thomas Ligotti

There are enough fatalities of a mundane sort. Find a quiet place and wait for one of them to carry you off. — Thomas Ligotti

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real. — Thomas Ligotti

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics. — Thomas Ligotti

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror. — Thomas Ligotti

I had always been afraid. — Thomas Ligotti

The pessimist's credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone. — Thomas Ligotti

There is no nature to things,' you wrote in the book. 'There are no faces except masks held tight against the pitching chaos behind them. — Thomas Ligotti

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world. — Thomas Ligotti

Paradoxically, it is the uncommon event that may best demonstrate the common predicament of our race. — Thomas Ligotti

Forsake the world and cling to the shadows. — Thomas Ligotti

If we must think, it should be done only in circles, outside of which lies the unthinkable. — Thomas Ligotti

We are gene-copying bio-robots, living out here on a lonely planet in a cold and empty physical universe. — Thomas Ligotti

many societies, of course, ours was founded on fearful superstition, and this is always reason enough for any kind of behavior. She — Thomas Ligotti

But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as beings. — Thomas Ligotti

There is nothing to do and there is nowhere to go
There is nothing to be and there is no-one to know — Thomas Ligotti

People get the biggest kick out of seeing the features of their faces plastered onto one head. — Thomas Ligotti

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. — Thomas Ligotti

Every story needs to be told in just the right way. — Thomas Ligotti

The knowledge that life is worthless is the flower of all human wisdom. — Thomas Ligotti

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum. — Thomas Ligotti

No more worlds like this / No more days like that — Thomas Ligotti

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone. — Thomas Ligotti

There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection — Thomas Ligotti

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next. — Thomas Ligotti

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. — Thomas Ligotti

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be. — Thomas Ligotti

He said to me, 'The book has found its reader,' and what could I do but agree with him? — Thomas Ligotti

Generally speaking: Expect nothing but nightmarish obscenities to be born when human heads come together in intercourse. — Thomas Ligotti

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page. — Thomas Ligotti

In a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that. — Thomas Ligotti

From them I had nothing to learn - one cannot cease to know what one does know. — Thomas Ligotti

I'm trying to feel as good as I can. — Thomas Ligotti

Why should there be something rather than nothing? — Thomas Ligotti

If you can't say something positive about humanity, then say something equivocal. — Thomas Ligotti

For wherever mystery serves as a foundation, only ruins may be erected. — Thomas Ligotti

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness. — Thomas Ligotti

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic. — Thomas Ligotti

fatal vehicular misadventure. — Thomas Ligotti

Every human activity is a tack for killing time, — Thomas Ligotti

Violence without violation is only a noise heard by no one, the most horrendous sound in the universe. — Thomas Ligotti

My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult. — Thomas Ligotti

Ultimately, all diseases are magical diseases ...
("Gas Station Carnival") — Thomas Ligotti

One must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise. — Thomas Ligotti

To become formally integrated into a society, one must offer it a blood sacrifice. — Thomas Ligotti

Windows are the eyes of the soulless — Thomas Ligotti

Rigorously considered, our only natural birthright is to die. — Thomas Ligotti

Man is a self-conscious Nothing, — Thomas Ligotti

We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity. — Thomas Ligotti

God was long gone before Nietzsche made his death certificate into a slogan, but no one
has yet written the obituary of the Devil. — Thomas Ligotti

Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous. — Thomas Ligotti

But stories, even very nasty ones, are traditionally considered more satisfying than reality - which, as we all know, is a grossly overrated affair. — Thomas Ligotti

What does it mean to be alive except to court disaster and suffering at every moment? — Thomas Ligotti

We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell. — Thomas Ligotti

Fear, when blended with failure, distills into a deadly brew. — Thomas Ligotti

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal. — Thomas Ligotti

We did not create an environment uncongenial to our species, nature did. — Thomas Ligotti