Grotesque Quotes

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

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

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

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

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.

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.

when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

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

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

It was grotesque and eerie, too strange of a dream.

The extent of God’s grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He’s had enough.