Quotes About Monstrosity

The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.

Ludzie lubi? wymy?la? potwory i potworno?ci. Sami sobie wydaj? si? wtedy mniej potworni.

A fantastic idea had birth in his mind and grew, that beneath the sheet, the mere lifeless body had become a strange, monstrous thing, a hideous, conscious being, that watched him with eyes which burned through the fabric of the cloth.

Even monsters are beautiful.

This novel is for everyone who has ever studied any monstrosity of history, with the serene satisfaction of being horrified while knowing exactly what was going to happen, rather like studying a dragon anatomized upon a table, and then turning around to find the dragon's present-day relations standing close by, alive and ready to bite.

In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity.

Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, resurrection by human power rather than divine spirit always produces a monstrosity. If

I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born …. I am the meaning of your deeds. I am the meaning of your so-called love; your destructive, selfish, wanton love … your love looks just like hatred.

This is Armageddon…Flowering Monstrosity. Tell me what you see." "There's

It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.

A person is not likely to conceive something monstrous if he does not know it somehow or other from experience. We simply tend to refuse to take a child's suffering seriously enough.

The girl's pretty little-girl face had deformed, lips stretching wide, becoming like the mouth of a flukeworm, a ragged pink hole encircled with teeth going all the way down her gullet. Her tongue was black, and her breath stank of old meat.

whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day.

E se il nazismo non fosse una mostruosità disumana? Se fosse 'umano'? Se fosse una confessione, una verità nascosta, rimossa, camuffata, negata, acquattata in fondo a noi stessi, ma che finisce sempre per tornar fuori?

I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We love apocalypses too much, and crisis ethics and florid extremism with its thrilling language. Excuse me, no. I've had all the monstrosity I want.

Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.

But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.

You have always wanted to caress every monster.

The house belonged to the hashish school of Spanish architecture. Probably early nineteen-twenties and imitation Mizener, which made it the imitation of an imitation which wasn't worth imitating. It was a ponderous monstrosity with thick walls, meager windows, insane turrets. Somebody with a hidalgo complex had tried to jail a dream of happiness. The prisoner had probably died, or lost its mind.

As you wisely said, Scipio, a true republic can exist only when the citizens consent to be bound together under the law. The monstrosity you describe surely deserves the name of tyranny just as much as if it were a single person. Actually, it is even worse, for there is nothing more despicable than a government that falsely assumes the appearance and the name of .

I can't help being a gorgeous fiend. It's just the card I drew. The bastard monster who made me what I am picked me on account of my good looks. That's the long and short of it. And accidents like that occur all the time.

Mis recuerdos son demasiado claros, demasiado agudos; las cosas debieran gastarse en los bordes y lo irresoluto debería suavizarse. De ese modo, hay escenas tan cerca de mi corazón como fotos en un marco; sin embargo, son retratos monstruosos que ningún artista ni ninguna cámara jamás lograrán.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

A simti impulsuri distructive nu inseamna ca esti rau,inseamna ca esti doar dezechilibrat. Poti sa fii bun si monstru,inger si asasin,in acelasi timp. Puritatea e compatibila cu instinctele cele mai inspaimantatoare.Feriti-va de cei care au fost cat pe ce sa fie sfinti!