Classic Quote by Stephen A. Reger

“He was an abomination precisely because they saw his humanity, but degraded it and would not recognize it.”

— Jean M. Auel

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse…

— Michael Reeves

“I cannot even hint what it was like, for it was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, and detestable. It…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“My father sat ensconced in his chair like a fabled god. Tall, strong, immovable. But I saw through his illusion and despaired.”

— Jessica Dotta

“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time ago that…

— Gauri Sharma

“But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had…

— Joseph Conrad

“He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of…

— Chinua Achebe

“Sophocles quote—“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse”—to”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“The fascination of the abomination.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return…

— Madeline Miller

“And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood”

— J. Tyson-Capper