Thomas Ligotti Quotes

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Let's die of it before we're too old.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

All diseases run into one, old age.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

Life is an incurable disease.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.