Time Quote by Sarah Porter

“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 faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Salman Rushdie

“Humans were capable of incredible cruelty, our father wanted me, my sister, and my brothers to understand. And just as dangerous, he made us…

— Joe Biden

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that their very…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“This voice had a quality to it, a monstrous quality, wild and untamed.”

— Patrick Ness

“Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to…

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Sara Baume

“The voice belonged to a plump, round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

“Her voice was preserved. Out of the millions that were silenced, this voice was no louder than a child's whisper... It has outlasted the…

— Ernst Shnabel