Grotesqueness Quotes

“The human soul is a madhouse of the grotesque. If a soul were able to reveal itself truthfully, if its shame and modesty didn't run deeper than all its known and named ignominies, then it would be--as is said of truth--a well, but a sinister well full of murky echoes and inhabited by abhorrent creatures, slimy non-beings, lifeless slugs, the snot of subjectivity.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“The exhibition of grotesqueness exhibits the wounded body openly to the world, to show it and sign it so that only its author can claim its authority.”
― Hanan Jasim Khammas, Writing Through the Body: Iraqi Responses to the War on Terror