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title: "241 Grotesque Quotes by 179 authors"
description: "Browse 241 Grotesque quotes by 179 authors. Discover the best Grotesque sayings and thoughts."
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> [The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/the-noble-grotesque-involves-the-true-appreciation-of-beauty/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eug-ne-ionesco/to-me-the-world-seems-grotesque-absurd-ridiculous-painful/)

[Eugene Ionesco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eug-ne-ionesco/)

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> [There is beautiful in the grotesque.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-del-toro/there-is-beautiful-in-the-grotesque/)

[Guillermo del Toro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillermo-del-toro/)

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> [There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-conan-doyle/there-is-but-one-step-from-the-grotesque-to-the-horrible/)

[Arthur Conan Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-conan-doyle/)

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> [“It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-lacey/it-was-grotesque-and-eerie-too-strange-of-a-dream/)

[Catherine Lacey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-lacey/)

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> [If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/if-i-am-not-grotesque-i-am-nothing/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

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> [To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seph-lawless/to-find-beauty-in-the-most-grotesque-things-is-a-gift/)

[Seph Lawless](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seph-lawless/)

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> [We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-lucas/we-live-in-a-country-of-grotesque-inequalities/)

[Caroline Lucas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-lucas/)

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> [For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-meyer/for-me-marriage-is-a-grotesque-unforgiving-clunky-contrivance-yet/)

[George Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-meyer/)

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> [“It was grotesque, the way I kept trying to save that relationship. Like trying to tuck an elephant into pants.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-khong/it-was-grotesque-the-way-i-kept-trying-to-save-that-relationship-like/)

[Rachel Khong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-khong/)

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> [Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-e-cupp/conservatives-should-defend-free-speech-but-we-must-not-amplify-it/)

[S.E. Cupp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-e-cupp/)

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> [I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aubrey-beardsley/i-have-one-aim-the-grotesque-if-i-am-not-grotesque-i-am-nothing/)

[Aubrey Beardsley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aubrey-beardsley/)

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> [perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/perhaps-if-one-wishes-to-remain-an-individual-in-the-midst-of-the/)

[Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/)

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> [The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-a-romero/the-grotesque-has-never-really-affected-or-frightened-me-i-guess-it-s/)

[George A. Romero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-a-romero/)

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> [I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-brendel/i-have-a-great-need-to-learn-what-the-norm-is-by-dealing-with-what-is/)

[Alfred Brendel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-brendel/)

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> [There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-isn-t-anything-so-grotesque-or-so-incredible-that-the-average/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [“The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgar-allan-poe/the-teeth-the-teeth-they-were-here-and-there-and-everywhere-and/)

[Edgar Allan Poe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgar-allan-poe/)

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> [Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karlheinz-deschner/is-it-not-grotesque-when-the-representatives-of-an-antiquated-myth/)

Karlheinz Deschner

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> [...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muriel-barbery/i-am-an-anomaly-in-the-system-living-proof-of-how-grotesque-it-is-and/)

[Muriel Barbery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muriel-barbery/)

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> [I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigourney-weaver/i-am-sent-too-many-mainstream-scripts-in-which-the-older-woman-is/)

[Sigourney Weaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigourney-weaver/)

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> [The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-aris-willmott/the-exhibition-of-real-strength-is-never-grotesque-distortion-is-the/)

[Robert Aris Willmott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-aris-willmott/)

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> [I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-reitman/i-m-not-sure-i-agree-with-the-thesis-because-i-think-that-even-though/)

[Ivan Reitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-reitman/)

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> [I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-a-romero/i-grew-up-on-dc-comics-moral-tales-where-the-bad-guys-got-their/)

[George A. Romero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-a-romero/)

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> [My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beckmann/my-heart-beats-more-for-a-raw-average-vulgar-art-which-doesn-t-live/)

[Max Beckmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beckmann/)

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> [The one thing I'm quite critical of Hillary Clinton for, and it obviously hurt her, is that at some level, the Clintons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-remnick/the-one-thing-i-m-quite-critical-of-hillary-clinton-for-and-it/)

[David Remnick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-remnick/)

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> [Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-koestler/man-s-destiny-was-no-longer-determined-from-above-by-a-super-human/)

[Arthur Koestler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-koestler/)

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> [I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-believe-when-i-am-in-the-mood-that-all-nature-is-full-of-people/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/when-you-can-assume-that-your-audience-holds-the-same-beliefs-you-do/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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> [I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amos-oz/i-know-that-a-translation-of-a-work-of-literature-is-like-playing-a/)

[Amos Oz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amos-oz/)

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> [The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-laws-of-nature-take-precedence-of-all-human-laws-the-purpose-of/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stott/an-unchurched-christian-is-a-grotesque-anomaly-the-new-testament/)

[John Stott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stott/)

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> [Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/children-being-children-however-the-grotesque-hopping-pot-had-taken/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clive-barker/harvey-wasn-t-interested-in-the-clothes-it-was-the-masks-that/)

[Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clive-barker/)

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> [ “But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... \[and that\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michaelangelo/but-if-it-so-happens-a-work-under-pain-of-otherwise-becoming-shameful/)

Michaelangelo

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> [“The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft-2/the-thing-cannot-be-described-there-is-no-language-for-such-abysms-of/)

[H.P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft-2/)

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> [ \[Vathek\] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-thomas-beckford/vathek-has-in-parts-been-called-but-to-some-judgments-never-is-dull/)

William Thomas Beckford

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> [This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/this-is-a-valley-of-ashes-a-fantastic-farm-where-ashes-grow-like/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-baudelaire/relate-comic-things-in-pompous-fashion-irregularity-in-other-words/)

[Charles Baudelaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-baudelaire/)

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> [But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/but-where-only-a-free-play-of-our-presentational-powers-is-to-be/)

[Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/)

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> [Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/of-course-it-may-be-that-the-arts-of-writing-and-photography-are/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

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