Destiny Quote by E. T. A. Hoffmann

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

— Camille Paglia

Men have to be freed from the tortures of heavy clothing that covers everything but the face and hands.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself,…

— Paul Gauguin

“The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which that which is pitiless—that is to say, that which is brutalizing—predominates, is to transform a…

— Victor Hugo

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There's so much power in the idea of becoming monstrous. I think we see that in the way some women and girls choose to…

— Leigh Bardugo

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing…

— Martin Gardner

“Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques—the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads,…

— Walter Pater

The transformation scene, where man is becoming insect and insect has become at least man and beyond that - a flying, godlike, shimmering, diaphanous,…

— Michael O'Donoghue

Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first…

— Suzanne Collins