Quotes by : Thomas Ligotti

When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements....

To Eden with me you will not leaveTo live in a cottage of crazy, crooked eaves.In your own happy home....

For us, then, life is a confidence trick we must run on ourselves, hoping we do not catch on to any monkey....

This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever....

Something statuesque is approaching her. It radiates a field of dynamic tension that grows more intense....

If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things....

And any room that I enter may become a sideshow tent where I must take my place upon a rickety old bench....

Compassion for human hurt, a humble sense of our impermanence, an absolute valuation of justice—all....

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings....

Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of events,....