Grotesque Quotes

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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque… — Carl von Clausewitz
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into… — Karlheinz Deschner
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish… — Mark Twain
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream… — Gelett Burgess
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. — Mark Twain
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived… — Ernest Becker
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and… — Albert Einstein
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are… — Alister Hardy
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and enduring hostility... is… — Colin Archibald Russell
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have… — Mark Twain
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a… — Dorothea Lange
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the… — Swami Vivekananda
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts… — Immanuel Kant
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a… — Oscar Wilde
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque… — Annie Dillard
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God… — Andre Breton
Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true. — Edward Abbey
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was… — Henry David Thoreau
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them… — Gore Vidal

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