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Madness, chaos, bone-deep mayhem, devastation of innumerable souls—while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

— Thomas Ligotti Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (2015)

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

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (2015)

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

Teatro Grottesco (2008)

We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.

The Spectral Link (2014)

Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

Teatro Grottesco (2008)

If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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