Frasi di Thomas Ligotti
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Thomas Ligotti è uno scrittore e saggista statunitense di letteratura horror contemporanea.

✵ 9. Luglio 1953  •  Altri nomi Томас Лиготи, توماس لیقوتی

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Thomas Ligotti Frasi e Citazioni

“Crede in qualsiasi cosa comprovi una sua importanza come persona, tribù, comunità, e in particolar modo come specie che resisterà in questo mondo e forse in un aldilà che sarà pure incerto nella sua realtà e poco chiaro nella sua struttura, ma che sazia nella gente la brama di valori non di questa Terra: il deprimente, insignificante posto che la sua coscienza è costretta ogni giorno a schivare. È ovvio, allora, che ad autori come Zapffe, Schopenhauer e Lovecraft sia toccata la marginalità quando hanno omesso di affermare il merito e la meraviglia dell'umanità, la validità dei suoi valori (eterni o provvisori) e, naturalmente, un mondo privo di una fine pronosticabile o, perlomeno, un mondo la cui fine nessuno vuole vedere.”

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Thomas Ligotti: Frasi in inglese

“As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings.”

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

“There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn’t they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it’s the same old lesson: everything in this life—I repeat, everything—is more trouble than it’s worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. There’s a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.”

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

“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.”

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Thomas Ligotti libro Teatro Grottesco

Teatro Grottesco

“I know in a way I never knew before that there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to do, and no one for me to know. The voice in my head keeps reciting these old principles of mine. The voice is his voice, and the voice is also my voice. And there are other voices, voices I have never heard before, voices that seem to be either dead or dying in a great moonlit darkness. More than ever, some sort of new arrangement seems in order, some dramatic and unknown arrangement -- anything to find release from this heartbreaking sadness I suffer every minute of the day (and night), this killing sadness that feels as if it will never leave me no matter where I go or what I do or whom I may ever know.”

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The Nightmare Factory

“As an aphorist, Cioran has no rivals other than perhaps Nietzsche, and many of his philosophies are echoed by Ligotti. But Ligotti is far more disturbing than Cioran, who is actually very funny. In exploring these philosophies, nobody I’ve read has expressed the idea of humanity as aberration more powerfully than Cioran and Ligotti.”

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Nic Pizzolatto, as quoted by Michael Calia (2014) " Writer Nic Pizzolatto on Thomas Ligotti and the Weird Secrets of ‘True Detective’ http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/02/02/writer-nic-pizzolatto-on-thomas-ligotti-and-the-weird-secrets-of-true-detective/", Speakeasy blog on the Wall Street Journal

“Fact is, nothing can justify our existence. Existence of any flavor is not only unjustified, it is useless, malignantly so, and has nothing to recommend it over nonexistence. A person’s addiction to existence is understandable as a telltale of the fear of nonexistence, but one’s psychology as a being that already exists does not justify existence as a condition to be perpetuated but only explains why someone would want to perpetuate it. For the same reason, even eternal bliss in a holy hereafter is unjustified, since it is just another form of existence, another instance in which the unjustifiable is perpetuated. That anyone should have a bias for heaven over nonexistence should by rights be condemned as hedonistic by the same people who scoff at Schopenhauer for complaining about the disparity between “the effort and the reward” in human life. People may believe they can choose any number of things. But they cannot choose to undo their existence, leaving them to live and die as puppets who have had an existence forced upon them whose edicts they must follow. If you are already among the existent, anything you do will be unjustified and MALIGNANTLY USELESS.”

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

“At all levels, the systems of life - from sociopolitical systems to solar systems - are repugnant and should be negated as MALIGNANTLY USELESS.”

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