Top 46 Most Gruesome Quotes
#1. he constantly came up with more and more ways to publicly execute his detractors in the most gruesome of ways. There was a purpose to such barbarity; Granzool wanted to ensure that his people feared him more than they could ever fear the western monsters.
Shane Porteous
#2. Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
Jorge Luis Borges
#3. Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.
Anurag Shourie
#4. Look at the immigrants coming to America looking for a better life. What they got now? If they had the misfortune to be successful one of the most gruesome cultural straightjackets in history.
William S. Burroughs
#5. But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
T Bone Burnett
#6. Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks. It was difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like - impossibe and rather gruesome to speculate on it.
Barbara Pym
#7. [I]t is something that comes up as a struggle in me. It especially came up when I was about 16 or 17. In high school people think you have to be so macho. People get attacked just because someone insinuates something about their sexuality. I think that's gruesome.
Green Day
#8. Alchemy is glorious, gritty, and gruesome, forcing one to mature spiritually."
-from my weblog posted today on diavirginia
Dia Virginia Rigden
#9. As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
Anthony Browne
#10. If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#11. No matter how heavy and gruesome the cross you have to carry in your life, surrender to the suffering and RISE.
Tina Sequeira
#12. Q. This may be a bit gruesome, but ... if someone's DNA suddenly vanished, how long would that person last?
Randall Munroe
#13. The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be ...
Henry James
#14. Emma shivered again, and Mr. Weston noticed. "You're cold. Here, take this." He began to peel off his greatcoat, but she stayed him with a hand to his sleeve. "Don't. I'm fine." Realizing she had touched him, she snatched back her hand and forced a chuckle. "It is only your gruesome story.
Julie Klassen
#15. We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
Albert Einstein
#16. For our sin God had visited our bodies with the gruesome ignominy of rot and decay, there was no indignity in the same body's receiving
Thomas Mann
#17. Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.
Orville Prescott
#18. 'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.
Akhil Sharma
#19. I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.
Vincent Gallo
#20. We want to know. We want to know who we are and what we are capable of.
I want to know.
And yet we were dragged into another war. Another seemingly inevitable and gruesome legacy passed down, along with soma.
Jeno Marz
#21. In the end, Scipio and Salvadore were condemned to a gruesome death. They were to be hanged, decapitated, and quartered. As a deterrent to potential conspirators, each man's head and body parts were to be displayed in different counties.17
Sylviane A. Diouf
#22. I don't like raccoons. They look ... shifty, with their little burglar masks and everything. Also, they carry rabies. Can I catch rabies? Probably not. All the same, it sounds gruesome - and I think we all know that cute, fuzzy woodland creatures are not to be trusted on general principle.
Cherie Priest
#23. Charles threw down the knife. Its thud was lost in the high-spirited bedlam of young men let loose upon a task so gruesome, the only sane response was perverse frivolity.
Tess Gerritsen
#24. Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and gruesome example of McCarthy's red-baiting paranoia.
Elizabeth Winder
#25. I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012 ... And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there.
Isabel Allende
#26. I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.
George Eads
#27. This is life, in all its gruesome, lovely, neon-lit glory.
Nuala Casey
#28. Islamic jihadists making sacrifices tended to create gruesome headlines.--Titus Ray, Chapter 29
Luana Ehrlich
#29. If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#30. The beasts' gruesome growls and roars unmistakably sounded like a dare.
A.O. Peart
#31. Dead parents are gruesome, yes, but anyone who's anyone in children's literature has either been orphaned or abandoned; well-adjusted kids from stable two-parent homes don't go on hero quests.
Lynn Messina
#32. She noted that the more gruesome or heinous the crime, the more interested the class of over 105 students would become.
Grae Lily
#33. An ancient human religious figure known as John the Baptist had once claimed, "The truth shall make you free," but if Aelyx remembered correctly, John's honesty had been rewarded with a gruesome decapitation. Aelyx hoped for better results.
Melissa Landers
#34. It was a cycle of whimpers and bangs, gruesome beginnings and bloody ends.
Victoria Schwab
#35. Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.
Gail Carriger
#36. He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.
Philip Pullman
#37. What is today?"
"Thursday."
"Thursday." She stood up. "My God," she said, and sat down again with a moan. "It's too gruesome.
Truman Capote
#38. Without children, there is no careless play; the laughter has died. Only the gruesome reality of the day is left, an unchanging reality knowing no miracles, no breaks, no dreams.
Henry Martin
#39. A gruesome death is a public event. Cops destroy privacy in order to build a concatenation.
S.A. David
#40. I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.
Greg Van Eekhout
#41. Nigel hit his button again. "I need security." "No, you don't," Taggart said, his mouth curling up in a deeply gruesome approximation of a grin. "You just need to give me five minutes with him." "Ian, you promised you would stop killing people. I'm tired of getting blood out of your clothes.
Lexi Blake
#42. The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.
Jonathan Kozol
#43. The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond
#44. More than ten thousand people had been on board the Gustloff. The gruesome details of the sinking would be reported in every world newspaper. The tragedy would be studied for years, become legendary.
Ruta Sepetys
#45. I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
Dar Williams
