Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous.

- Thomas Ligotti

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

- 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

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 imaginin…

- Thomas Ligotti

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

- Thomas Ligotti

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 n…

- Thomas Ligotti

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…

- Thomas Ligotti

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

- Thomas Ligotti

While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this facult…

- Thomas Ligotti