Quotes About Monstrous

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings

If Castle Dracula screwed a hospital, this would be the bastard offspring.

Rus, dancing alongside Roza like a monstrous, bedraggled pony.

I could conceive of them as evil, monstrous, and devoid of decency. Or I could think of them as men and sometimes women who are so controlled by their pain, they're unable to care enough about the people they hurt to be able to change their reprehensible behavior.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

Las cosas que hacemos por amor son desagradables, dementes, llenas de sudor y remordimiento —caminó hacia Edith, quien se contuvo para no gritar. —Este amor te quema y te mutila y te retuerce de adentro hacia fuera. Es un amor monstruoso y nos transforma en monstruos.

his monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..

a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance

It sat proudly atop the hill behind wrought-iron gates, with smooth lawns, tennis courts, and shiny classroom buildings, a monstrous bastion of arrogant elegance, glowing like a phoenix above the ramshackle neighborhood of Chicken Hill.

Ender's Game is not simply a story of an exceptional child who must outwit aliens in order to save the human race—it is the story of an exceptional child who fears he is a monster and is tricked into doing something monstrous.

Dena seemed about to respond, but instead, she belched again, a smaller belch that seemed unequal as a harbinger to the monstrous chunky gush that erupted from inside her. I held her hair back and looked away as she finished retching. Working with children had made me less squeamish--they were constantly presenting their grubby hands to your, having accidents--but at some point, disgusting was still disgusting, Especially with an adult woman.

the linear, beginning-middle-end form doesn't fit the lives of any women I know. For life has turned out to be wild and various, full of the unexpected, and it's a monstrous big river out here.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

Let's get out of here before–" A gigantic reptilian head rose up before us, fiery green water trickling down its black-scaled hide.

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.

If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful

The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.