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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
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 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
There is nothing to do and there is nowhere to goThere 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
Every story needs to be told in just the right way.
— 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
I'm trying to feel as good as I can.
— Thomas Ligotti
Why should there be something rather than nothing?
— 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
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
Windows are the eyes of the soulless
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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 onehas 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
