Quotes by Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

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So they trust in the deity of the Old Testament, an incontinent dotard who soiled Himself and the universe with his corr — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
... nature did not make us to feel too good for too long (which would be no good for the survival of the species) but on — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have n — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we did not, and it will c — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not ple — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revered as a sign of vigor — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever may be really “o — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
... whatever family name has been given to a case of depression, it has an objective in common with all its kind: to sab — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pain at that, with a l — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
For us, then, life is a confidence trick we must run on ourselves, hoping we do not catch on to any monkey business that — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
What is this life! you cry out. Only silence answers, and it is eloquent. Shining eyes open in the darkness, the eyes of — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Lucifer endears himself to us only as the Lord of Lies, for in this role he is most convincing as a character, which is — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or socialized, not as writers — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them a — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think. — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. — Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race