Best Monstrous Wisdom
232 Monstrous quotes by 185 unique authors
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
— John Gardner
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People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the…
— Bernhard Schlink
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the…
— Oscar Wilde
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You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
— John Steinbeck
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Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as…
— Robert E. Howard
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The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.
— Rick Yancey
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The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the…
— Pentti Linkola
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You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul…
— Karen Maitland
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I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way…
— H P Lovecraft
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Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things…
— E E Cummings
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Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs…
— Victor Hugo
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He joked while Dali cut him, mangling the words with his monstrous jaws, snarled with a pretended rage and dramatically promised to "kirrrl youraaalll for…
— Ilona Andrews
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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be…
— Victor Hugo
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Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you…
— Patrick Ness
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There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics…
— Donna Tartt
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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…
— Franz Kafka
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is…
— Ernest Becker
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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want…
— Henry Miller
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It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every…
— Karen Marie Moning
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess…
— Steven Pressfield
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I like all the things that make you monstrous.
— Holly Black
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through…
— Charles Dickens
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By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from…
— James Joyce
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