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For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
— Andre Breton
I have butchered many men. All are innocent and equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. -Dr. Spencer Black
— E.B. Hudspeth
A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even moregrotesque, like a soul without a body. — Edward Abbey
If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.
— Michael Jackson
For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty,
— David Altmejd
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know?
— Mike Tyson
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.
— George Meyer
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.
— Mark Twain
There is beautiful in the grotesque.
— Guillermo Del Toro
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
the thing whose grotesque misshapen shadow on the spotted carpet showed him that it had not stirred, but
— Oscar Wilde
I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
— Muriel Barbery
At sixI lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
avoiding myself,
my body, the suspect
in its grotesque house. — Anne Sexton
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
— Victor Hugo
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.
— Ron Wyden
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
— Eva Zeisel
I have one aim - the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
— Aubrey Beardsley
If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.
— Aubrey Beardsley
Size without shape is grotesque.
— Vince Gironda
My family despised Faberge objects as emblems of grotesque garishness.
— Vladimir Nabokov
There's nothing under the sun as grotesque as cold European courtesy manifested in the third and fourth worlds.
— Peter Hoeg
grotesque countenance
— Graham Downs
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm ... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
— Alfred Brendel
Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
— J. Tillman
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
For there to be light, there must be darkness. For there to be joy, there must be sorrow. For there to be beauty, there must be the grotesque.
— Penelope King
He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you.
— Ford Madox Ford
I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible,
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
— Edward Abbey
Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation.
— Bryant McGill
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
— Walter Gropius
I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things.
— Alexander McQueen
And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.
— Flannery O'Connor
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
— E.C. Bentley
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
— Mark Twain
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,
— Tim Waterstone
As deformed as a grotesque potato,
— Andrzej Sapkowski
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
— Antonio Lobo Antunes
The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.
— Ellen Datlow
The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
— Charles Baudelaire
He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
— Robert Aris Willmott
I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility
— H.G.Wells
Including four mice posed with tiny china cups, seated around a miniature table. A Mad Hatter's grotesque tea party.
— Tess Gerritsen
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
— George A. Romero
I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.
— Christopher Page
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
— Flannery O'Connor
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.
— Thomas Keneally
incurable lover of the grotesque
— H.P. Lovecraft
I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young. I've never quite been able to shake that.
— Carrie Brownstein
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.
— David Sedaris
This is exactly how Satan works, not through what seems grotesque and repulsive, but through what seduces us.
— Michael Schiefelbein
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
It is impossible to go on living when life assumes such grotesque and humiliating forms.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This is the golden age of grotesque.
— Marilyn Manson
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
— Amber Heard
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
— Eugene Ionesco
The nightMakes everything grotesque. Is it because
Night is the nature of man's interior world? — Wallace Stevens
I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.
— Anna Journey
Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
— Salman Rushdie
I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
— Dustin Hoffman
