A-line-made-by-walking Quote by Sara Baume

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

— 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

“Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.”

— Henry Miller

“There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to…

— Patrick McGrath

“I am appalled by the potentialities of drama that are still contained in these feeble bodies.”

— Henry Miller

“True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected, but from the corruption of everyday objects, spaces.”

— Noah Hawley

“I have evidently taken on a completely monstrous form in which I can no longer recognize myself. It”

— C.G. Jung

“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

“[He] looked as thought he had been carved out of soft ebony by a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise,…

— Robert Galbraith

“We can't continue treating people like monsters and then wondering why they have so few reservations about doing monstrous things.”

— T.J. Kirk

“The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.”

— Philippa Gregory

“People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.”

— Philip Pullman