Grotesque Quotes

128 Grotesque quotes by 99 unique authors

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist… — E. M. Forster
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has… — Greta Christina
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't… — Georges Perec
Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health,… — Thomas Bernhard
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is… — Corin Nemec
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally
Size without shape is grotesque. — Vince Gironda
There is beautiful in the grotesque. — Guillermo del Toro
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident… — Flannery O'Connor
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance… — Max Beckmann
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do, — Tim Waterstone
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition.… — Werner Herzog
The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. — Eugene Ionesco
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If… — Elizabeth Aston
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature.… — Mark Twain
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of… — John Stott
You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public… — Gore Vidal
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked… — Nicholas von Hoffman
For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty, — David Altmejd
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know? — Mike Tyson

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