Eminence Quote by John Ruskin

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which…

— John Ruskin

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that…

— Blaise Pascal

To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see…

— Carrie Brownstein

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer.

— Victor Hugo

Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,…

— Johnny Luckett

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

— Victor Hugo

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set…

— George Santayana

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

— Mark Twain

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The darkness of the grotesque is an immortal enigma: in all legends of the dead, in all the tales of creatures of the night,…

— Thomas Ligotti

“After Death nothing is, and nothing, death, The utmost limit of a gasp of breath. Let the ambitious zealot lay aside His hopes of…

— John Wilmot