Thomas Ligotti Quotes

• No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon our heads, we would never have withdrawn as far as we have from the natural—so far and for such a time that it is a relief to say what we have been trying with our all not to say: We have long since been denizens of the natural world. Everywhere around us are natural habitats, but within us is the shiver of startling and dreadful things. Simply put: We are not from here. If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

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  Long, Missing, Trying

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• Locura, caos, vandalismo erótico, devastación de innumerables almas... mientras nosotros gritamos y perecemos, la Historia se chupa un dedo y pasa página.

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  Soul, Erotic, Devastation

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• Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone.

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  Hurt, Existence

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• Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

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  People, Consciousness

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• Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

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  Suffering, Looks, Body

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• Estar cuerdo, sostenía, era estar sedado por la melancolía o activado por la histeria, dos respuestas que estaban "siempre e igualmente justificadas para los que tienen una visión sólida". Todas las demás eran irracionales, meros síntomas de imaginaciones ociosas, de memorias sin trabajo. Y por encima de estas respuestas mundanas, la única elevación permitida, la única trascendencia válida, era una sardónica: una dicha que aniquilaba el universo con burlas de oscura alegría, un éxtasis consciente. Cualquier otra cosa en el camino del "misticismo" era un signo de desviación o distracción, y una herejía a lo obvio. ("La Medusa")

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  Memories, Dark, Hysteria

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

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  Nonsense, Existence, Outrageous

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.53, Random House

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• Mientras que un mínimo de conciencia puede haber tenido propiedades de supervivencia durante un capítulo inmemorial de nuestra evolución - así lo dice una teoría - esta facultad pronto se convirtió en un agente sedicioso que trabaja en contra de nosotros ... tenemos que obstaculizar nuestra conciencia por todo lo que valemos o nos impondrá una visión demasiado clara de lo que no queremos ver ... La conciencia nos ha obligado a la paradójica posición de esforzarnos por no ser conscientes de lo que somos - trozos de carne en mal estado en los huesos en desintegración

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  Soon Enough, Vision, Needs

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• A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand scheme of things is a nightmarish obscenity.

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  Mean, Facts, Natural

  Thomas Ligotti (2011). “My Work Is Not Yet Done”, p.14, Random House

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• Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

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  Peculiar, Ridiculous

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• And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.

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  Knowing, People, Puppets

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• As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings.

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  Hair, Self, People

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

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  World, Certain, Lays

  "Songs of a Dead Dreamer". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 1986.

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• Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

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  Flesh, Consciousness, Bones

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Humanity, Black, Mind

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• As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

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  Mean, Years, Numbers

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• For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness—should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception—that can compensate us for life’s hurt.

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  Hurt, Things Will Get Better, Needs

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• Lo siniestro, lo terrible nunca engañan: el estado en que nos dejan es siempre de iluminación. Y sólo esta condición de perspicacia viciosa nos permite una plena comprensión del mundo, consideradas todas las cosas, del mismo modo que una melancolía glacial nos concede la plena posesión de nosotros mismos. Sólo podemos escondernos del horror en el corazón del horror. ("La Medusa")

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  Heart, Enlightenment, Medusa

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• 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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  Sake, States, Sane

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

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  Giving Up, Real, Turns

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.163, Random House

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• The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

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  Dream, Mirrors, Wind

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• This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and — like it or not — peculiar set of experiences to appreciate. Amazing thing to say, the consolation of horror in art is that it actually intensifies our panic, loudens it on the sounding-board of our horror-hollowed hearts, turns terror up full blast, all the while reaching for that perfect and deafening amplitude at which we may dance to the bizarre music of our own misery.

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  Art, Appreciate, Perfect

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• The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.

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  Dream, Creating, Effort

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• Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?

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  Moving, Self, Evil

  "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.

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• 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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  Sleep, Impossible, Nightmare

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