Monstrously Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I…
— Whitley Strieber
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Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been…
— Alice Munro
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There is nothing in the world so monstrously vast as our indifference.
— Machado de Assis
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Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits…
— Paul Hellyer
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You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War…
— H.G. Wells
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The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence…
— Vaclav Havel
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
— Hans Arp
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The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very…
— Peter S. Beagle
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The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then…
— Peter De Vries
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Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that…
— H P Lovecraft
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
— Jack London
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Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
— Werner Herzog
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise…
— Jean Arp
Who Wrote These Monstrously Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Monstrously Quotes as follows: