Quote by Salman Rushdie

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

— Salman Rushdie

“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie so exaggerated,…

— Holly Black

“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?”

— Sara Baume

“I am by nature an inward man, he said silently into the disconnected phone. I have struggled, in my fashion, to find my way…

— Salman Rushdie

“This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a wildness of…

— Iain Pears

“...and then, with the first and last sound I ever uttered—a ghastly ululation that revolted me almost as poignantly as its noxious cause—I beheld…

— The Outsider H. P. Lovecraft

“This ridiculous foible is perhaps one of our most fatal characteristics; for is there anything more absurd than to wish to carry continually a…

— Will Durant

“I scuttled without a shell, between houses and wives, a snake between skins, a monster of selfishness, my grotesque needs naked and pink.”

— Adam Begley

“Perhaps I am the victim of some mysterious political, religious or financial machination—some vast and shadowy plot, whose ramifications are so obscure as to…

— Anna Kavan

“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal…

— Anton Chekhov