Empty Quote by Thomas Browne

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

— Mark Twain

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

— Joseph Brodsky

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any…

— Thomas Browne

“THE BARROW In this high field strewn with stones I walk by a green mound, Its edges sheared by the plough. Crumbs of animal…

— Anthony Thwaite

There shall be no Alps.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— George A. Romero

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

— Louis Lecoin

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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