Grotesque Quotes

128 Grotesque quotes by 99 unique authors

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting,… — Mark Twain
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it… — Flannery O'Connor
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are… — William Butler Yeats
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic. — H.G. Wells
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — U.G. Krishnamurti
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about… — Oscar Wilde
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning… — Flannery O'Connor
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive… — Kate Chopin
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly… — Marisha Pessl
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as… — David Sedaris
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to… — Oscar Wilde
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths… — Sherwood Anderson
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable… — Muriel Barbery
The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some demons were a… — Jim Butcher
Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this… — Sylvia Plath
Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself in the form… — Katie MacAlister
Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood… — Clive Barker
incurable lover of the grotesque — H P Lovecraft
Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks… — Deb Caletti

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