“ In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothin… Thomas Ligotti
“ To Eden with me you will not leaveTo live in a cottage of crazy, crooked eaves.In your own happy home you take care these nights; When you let your little cat in, please turn on the lights! Something… 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
“ 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
“ Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of fragments that fit together as a biological unit but not as anything else, not… Thomas Ligotti
“ It is an eternal phenomenon: The insatiable will always find a way, by means of an illusion spread over things, to detain its creatures in life and to compel them to live on. One is chained by the Soc… Thomas Ligotti
“ The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is a sweet dream. You understand why, of cour… Thomas Ligotti
“ All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hid… Thomas Ligotti
“ When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being in the wilderness for a while, you may come around to feeling so… Thomas Ligotti
“ That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times I had the feeling there was someone else in my bedroom who was talking to me, but of course I could… Thomas Ligotti
“ But the secrets of such a book are not perpetual. Once they are known, they become relegated to a lesser sphere, which is that of the knower. Having lost the prestige they once enjoyed, these former s… Thomas Ligotti
“ While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire may symbolize our horror of both life and death, but none of us has ever been uprooted by a symbol.… Thomas Ligotti
“ Lucifer endears himself to us only as the Lord of Lies, for in this role he is most convincing as a character, which is to say, as a fiction that has been so fully realized that he misguides us with a… Thomas Ligotti
“ METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or abysmal — we should be obliged to change our names, as we are no longer who we once were. Instead the… Thomas Ligotti
“ Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits. Thomas Ligotti
“ Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind of mystical masochism, forcing initiates toward feats of occult daredevilry… Thomas Ligotti
“ Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real. Thomas Ligotti
“ There is nothing like fear to complicate one's consciousness, inducing previously unknown levels of reflection Thomas Ligotti
“ As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen in nature. But as beings who know they will die we digress into episodes and epi… Thomas Ligotti
“ So it is that supernatural horror is the product of a profoundly divided species of being. It is not the pastime of even our closest relations in the wholly natural world: we gained it, as part of our… Thomas Ligotti
