Quotes About Grotesque

A ferocidade, Sr. Soares, é o grotesco a sério.

Skandal? ?ovjek ne treba da se povu?e pred malim skandalom. Bilo bi mu?no, groteskno, ali skandal je ipak neka vrsta službe društvu.

In no age or country, perhaps, since the dawn of civilization was humbuggery exhibited in more gigantic and grotesque forms. . . . Reason was everywhere reeling in the storm, and madness ruled the masses."22

was extraordinarily unhandsome, as though God had created the ugliest human being possible and then punched him in the face.

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.

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

They waited until I was asleep, then roused themselves, exhausted as swimmers, grey between the empty trees. Their hair in tufts, open sores where ears used to be, grubs twisting from their chests. The grotesque remains of incomplete lives, the embodied complexities of desires eternally denied.

The grotesque remains of incomplete lives, the embodied complexity of desires eternally denied

But you must have all the things you never had of life and make of immortality a junk shop in which both of us become grotesque.

Spaced about ten feet apart on the first-floor ledge were leering gargoyles with chipped features that only added to their grotesqueness. They'd once been functional drains to divert rainwater from the entrance, but now a dark brown canopy served that purpose. The gargoyles didn't seem to mind; now they could concentrate full-time on leering at passersby too preoccupied to glance up and notice them.

Tragedias heroicas que acaban en vodeviles grotescos, beneficiando a los de siempre. Pocos revolucionarios siguen siéndolo cuando alcanzan el poder.

Ante semejante atropello, los diputados republicanos juraron morir heroicamente antes que traicionar a la patria; pero tan ejemplar resolución duró hasta que oyeron el primer tiro al aire. Entonces todos salieron corriendo, incluso arrojándose por las ventanas. Y de esa forma infame y grotesca fue como acabó, apenas nacida, nuestra desgraciada Primera República.

I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.

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

If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.

Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque.

And with them ten thousand men and women; those who, in seeking a private resurrection, had rendered their corpses forever imperishable lay here like drunkards after their debauch, their crystal sarcophagi broken, their limbs relaxed in grotesque disarray, their clothing rotted or rotting, and their eyes blindly fixed upon the sky.