Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

by Thomas Ligotti

Sometimes you just have to keep some distance between yourself and reality, even if it means becoming a little less human.

This modesty is very interesting when you consider the egotistical magnificence that a lot of psychopaths would attribute to themselves given a limitless imaginary orbit where they could play any imaginary role.

You can’t step into the same river twice, as the philosopher said.

Violence without violation is only a noise heard by no one,

BLOOM!

What I thought would last forever was lost in the blink of an eye.

twilight suffers no flamboyant finales.

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.

If things are not what they seem—and we are forever reminded that this is the case—then it must also be observed that enough of us ignore this truth to keep the world from collapsing.

Is it any wonder that they are all tempted by a universal vice, that in some dark street of the mind a soft voice whispers to one and all: ‘Lay down your burden.’

To cure you of doubt, you first had to be made a doubter.

unexpected desires arise for something which has no specific qualities in the imagination yet seems to be only a few steps away.