Hideous Quote by Conrad Aiken Download Open image “The truth--a hideous spectacle!” — Conrad Aiken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hideous Truth
“Truth cannot be invented, it cannot be distorted or replaced--it is simply that, the truth. However grotesque, absurd, or fatal, it is the truth.” — Lúcio Cardoso Copy Share Image
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable,… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“-Do you see that? -Yeah, what is it? -That’s the truth. -How can you tell it’s the truth? -Because it’s ugly.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing room, it had quite deliberately put… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
One cricket said to another - come, let us be ridiculous, and say love! love love love love love let us be absurd, woman,… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it - a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing. — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive. — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all… — James Leonard Gordon Copy Share Image
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your… — Barbara Hulanicki Copy Share Image
