Life is a hideous thing.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.”

— Victor Hugo

“Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects that make…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather,…

— Lionel Shriver

Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond…

— H. P. Lovecraft

It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics, & in…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all…

— James Leonard Gordon

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

— David Foster Wallace

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded…

— Paul Hoffman

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

— Conrad Aiken

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are…

— Octave Mirbeau

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I…

— John Wyndham