Malignantly Useless Ligotti Quotes & Sayings

Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him. — Chanakya

The broken doors are open - come and enter and be home. My darling girl, be careful now, and don't go out alone. — Mira Grant

By thought I embrace the universe. — Blaise Pascal

Birds and periodic blood.
Old recapitulations.
The fox, panting, fire-eyed,
gone to earth in my chest.
How beautiful we are,
he and I, with our auburn
pelts, our trails of blood,
our miracle escapes,
our whiplash panic flogging us on
to new miracles!
They've supplied us with pills
for bleeding, pills for panic.
Wash them down the sink.
This is truth, then:
dull needle groping for the spinal fluid,
weak acid in the bottom of the cup,
foreboding, foreboding.
No one tells the truth about truth,
that it's what the fox
sees from his scuffled burrow:
dull-jawed, onrushing
killer, being that
inanely single-minded
will have our skins at last. — Adrienne Rich

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape? — Dolores Huerta

"And all the bars at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring set Ajar before the soul. — Kate Douglas Wiggin

Trying for this understanding is the most trying thing of all. Yet trying not to try for it is just as trying. There is nothing more futile than to consciously look for something to save you. But consciousness makes this fact seem otherwise. Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know. This is what makes consciousness the parent of all horrors, the thing that makes us try to do something, go somewhere, be something, and know someone, such as ourselves, so that we can escape our MALIGNANTLY USELESS being and think that being alive is all right rather than that which should not be. — Thomas Ligotti

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning. — Elizabeth Bowen

If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams. — Domhnall Gleeson

The pedal is the soul of the piano. — Anton Rubinstein

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. — John Mayer