Thomas Ligotti Quotes

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Life is an incurable disease.

To have a body is to suffer.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.

Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Nothing lasts-not even pain.

But then it passed, as all things do.

The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)