The only value of this world lay in its power – at certain times – to suggest another world.
Thomas Ligotti
2023
Category: Cemeteries
To be alive is to inhabit a nightmare without hope of awakening to a natural world, to have our bodies embedded neck-deep in a quagmire of dread, to live as shut-ins in a house of horrors from which nobody gets out alive.
Thomas Ligotti
2015
Poetry is the vision in a man’s soul which he translates as best he can with all the means at his disposal.
Paul Fort
2023
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emil Cioran
2018
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2025
The kingdom of heaven after death, nirvana and absolute nothingness are one and the same.
Philipp Mainländer
2025
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H.P. Lovecraft
2025
Parallel Aesthetics 