Thomas Ligotti Quotes

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil--only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

In an insane world, sanity made very little sense.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

What's the matter?'' She immediately started laughin. ''What's the mattter? Everything is the matter! Rocks! Trees! Atoms! Even anteaters! Everything is the matter!

When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

Life [had] replaced logic.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.