Amara Knight

“In speaking of depression and it's defining effect of driving its victim to the point of caring nothing for anything, the American talk-show host Dick Cavett once remarked that "when you're downed by this affliction, if there was a curative magic wand on the table eight feet away, it would be too much trouble to go over and pick it up." No better elucidation has ever been proffered vis-a-vis the uselessness of reason in the absence of emotion. In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hungover with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“Vegetarianism for what? For some spiritual goals? One form of life lives off another. That's a fact, whether you like it or not.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Courage to Stand Alone: Enriched edition. A Radical Exploration of Self-Discovery and Non-Duality

“The lesson is a straightforward one: everything in this life is more trouble than it is worth. And simply to be alive is to be emwombed in trouble.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“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.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race