{"quotes":[{"text":"As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen in nature. But as beings who know they will die we digress into episodes and epics that are altogether dissociated from the natural world. We may isolate this awareness, distract ourselves from it, anchor our minds far from its shores, and sublimate it as a motif in our sagas. Yet at no time and in no place are we protected from being tapped on the shoulder and reminded, “You’re going to die, you know.” However much we try to ignore it, our consciousness haunts us with this knowledge. Our heads were baptized in the font of death; they are doused with the horror of moribundity.","author":"Thomas Ligotti","tags":["awareness","consciousness","death","die","dissociated","distract","haunts","horror","isolate","knowledge","nature","procreators","stories","survivors"],"id":79148,"author_id":"Thomas+Ligotti"},{"text":"1.\tI think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt life is bitter, it happens. I laughed while I see him but there was a girl inside me, who was crying and feeling angry for life and the way it treats people. Deep inside I was already broke, but I smiled to show my father.","author":"Shaikh Ashraf","tags":["father","haunts","life","losing","love","people"],"id":240717,"author_id":"Shaikh+Ashraf"},{"text":"The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.","author":"Ben Monopoli","tags":["fuels","haunts","wonder"],"id":298605,"author_id":"Ben+Monopoli"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}