Grotesque Quote by Mark Twain

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

— George A. Romero

This is the golden age of grotesque.

— Marilyn Manson

“Why even try to understand the human condition if humanity revealed itself as grotesque, dark, not worth it.”

— Salman Rushdie

“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

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

— John Banville

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

— Hugh Blair

For there is nothing quite so terror-inducing as the loss of sleep. It creates phantoms and doubts, causes one to questions one's own abilities…

— Charlie Huston

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Mark Twain

Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an…

— Matthew Walker