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The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't — Jeff VanderMeer

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England. — Thomas Carlyle

As humanity becomes monstrous, monsters become nicer. — Anonymous

Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms. Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol — Mark Simpson

Why, thou deboshed fish thou ... Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? — William Shakespeare

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful. — Gaston Leroux

How monstrous a thing is rebellion! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.
If I was monstrous ... perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing. — Sarah Diemer

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be. — Mark Lester

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous. — Eileen Myles

What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. — Colum McCann

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum — Thomas Jefferson

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over. — Felix Dennis

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. — Elizabeth Hurley

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces. — Jorge Luis Borges

You're not a dork, you're adorkable. — Elizabeth Fama

Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon. — Arthur Conan Doyle

This voice had a quality to it, a monstrous quality, wild and untamed. — Patrick Ness

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan

It's monstrous, what one person will do to another. — Barbara Kingsolver

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. — Douglas Brinkley

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. — George Santayana

O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two! — William Shakespeare

Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves - there were certain monstrous similarities. — Patricia Briggs

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth ... I am no man, I am dynamite! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you. — Rosamund Lupton

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

it is a monstrous thing, to slay a unicorn — J.K. Rowling

I felt, by turns, numb, hot with a monstrous embarrassment, and sick as though I'd eaten splinters of glass and was slowly shredding inside. — Vanora Bennett

And then a monstrous idea jumped into her head, a thought so ruthless and dark she almost fled from the contemplation of it. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

I can feel the darkness inside him. There's something wrong with him. His outer beauty hides something monstrous underneath. — Anna Zaires

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. — Jean Rostand

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! — John Suckling

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. — Oscar Wilde

I crawled into my books and pulled the pages up over my head.
(A Monstrous Regiment of Women) — Laurie R. King

What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous. — Friedrich Nietzsche

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. — Omar N. Bradley

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords. (p. 28) — Eckhart Tolle

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines. — Carl Jung

Hope is an act of desperate defiance against monstrous odds. — Ivo Andric

The truth of the matter is, the soul is a monstrous beast. The heart a most unwieldy and a fair weather friend. Why else woud ribs be cages — Anonymous

Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time. — Neal Shusterman

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. — Douglas MacArthur

To Morgan, the disfigurement of his monstrous nose was the touch of God upon him, the assurance of mortality. It was the steadiest assurance he had. — E.L. Doctorow

Sometimes, humans were more monstrous than anything else. — Jennifer Estep

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Fear is ugly. It is monstrous. But fear stands no chance in the face of faith. — Toni Sorenson

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet. — Mason Cooley

For it is monstrous that the feet should direct the head. — Elizabeth I

Sooner or later all things are numbers, yes? — Terry Pratchett

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world. — Mikhail Bakunin

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. — Susannah Cahalan

One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug ... — Franz Kafka

The Monstrous Regiment of Women. — John Knox

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Zizek

We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed. — Anna Maxted

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

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

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

No matter how bad things looked, Gramps had always seemed a giant to me. He wasn't made up of any monstrous parts. — Sally Gardner

My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life. — Chuck Palahniuk

This creature was evil and monstrous because we made him that way; it wasn't like he got to pick his origin story. — Ann Aguirre

WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect. — Franz Kafka

Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can't continue treating people like monsters and then wondering why they have so few reservations about doing monstrous things. — T.J. Kirk

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs. — Rick Perry

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers. — Ella R. Bloor

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous. — Isaac Asimov

Fear is a funny thing. In the right light, even tiny and insignificant fears can suddenly grow, swelling up to monstrous proportions. — Jim Butcher

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside. — Stacy London

If I'm a monster, mademoiselle, it's because man's cruelty has made me so. — Rachel L. Demeter

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful. — Rae Hachton

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God. — A.W. Tozer

He was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade ... — Robert McCammon

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe. — K. Howard Joslin

The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it? — Saint Augustine

When building monsters don't be surprised when they become monstrous. — Marlon James

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie. — R.C. Sproul

The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding. — Paul Nicklen

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens! — Lucille Kallen

Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite. — Oscar Wilde

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands. — William Ellery Channing

Where do men find it in themselves to do such monstrous things? — Sarah J. Maas

Kafka saw both himself and Red Peter as hybrids, as monstrous thinking devices mounted inexplicably on suffering animal bodies. — J.M. Coetzee

His monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes.. — James Joyce

One morning Gregor Samsa found himself, in bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin. — Franz Kafka

Fate, the monstrous scene-shifter, was setting the stage for the death of Uncle Fred, the elderly man. — George Bellairs

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly
but truth survives the flight. — William C. Bryant

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

I like all the things that make you monstrous. — Holly Black

I prate of ancient poets' monstrous lies,
Ne'er seen or now or then by human eyes. — Ovid

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Something tells me that immortality is monstrous. — Floriano Martins

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous — Thomas Overbury

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else. — Alain De Botton

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. — Ernest Becker