Clown Quotes
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![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― It
― It
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.”
― It
― It
![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!”
― It
― It
![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”
― Twelfth Night
― Twelfth Night
![James Howard Kunstler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1270021869i/47834.jpg)
“The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead!”
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![Stephen King](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1362814142i/3389._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even crying . . . but alive. Safe. Then he pushed the thought away. Its charm was deadly, its comfort fatal.”
― It
― It
![Leigh Bardugo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1534446099i/4575289._UX200_CR0,77,200,200_.jpg)
“Console yourself knowing that, should you ever punch me while wearing it, you’ll probably take my eye out. And I’d very much like you to. Wear it, that is. Not punch me.”
“Where did you get this thing?”
“My mother gave it to me before she left. It’s the Lantsov emerald. She was wearing it at my birthday dinner the night we were attacked. Curiously enough, that was not the worst birthday I’ve had.”
“No?”
“When I was ten, my parents hired a clown.”
― Ruin and Rising
“Where did you get this thing?”
“My mother gave it to me before she left. It’s the Lantsov emerald. She was wearing it at my birthday dinner the night we were attacked. Curiously enough, that was not the worst birthday I’ve had.”
“No?”
“When I was ten, my parents hired a clown.”
― Ruin and Rising
![Angela Carter](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397683766i/27500._CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”
― Nights at the Circus
― Nights at the Circus
![Thomas Ligotti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651866983i/128466._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“The clown figure has had so many meanings in different times and cultures. The jolly, well-loved joker familiar to most people is actually but one aspect of this protean creature. Madmen, hunchbacks, amputees, and other abnormals were once considered natural clowns; they were elected to fulfill a comic role which could allow others to see them as ludicrous rather than as terrible reminders of the forces of disorder in the world. But sometimes a cheerless jester was required to draw attention to this same disorder, as in the case of King Lear's morbid and honest fool, who of course was eventually hanged, and so much for his clownish wisdom. Clowns have often had ambiguous and sometimes contradictory roles to play. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin")”
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
![Mark Henwick](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1345320110i/6467424._UX200_CR0,61,200,200_.jpg)
“My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.”
― Hidden Trump
― Hidden Trump
![C. JoyBell C.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612358741i/4114218._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more people are entertained by their beauty, the more beautiful they think they must be. This is very unfortunate and I would like young girls to know that their beauty is a crown; not a clown. And crowns are best worn with elegance and serenity.”
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![Joe Hill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1569331514i/88506._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Christmas was almost four months in the rearview mirror, and there was something awful about Christmas music when it was nearly summer. It was like a clown in the rain, with his makeup running.”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog. A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father. No, no, this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be so neither. Yes, it is so, it is so -- it hath the worser sole. This shoe with the hole in it is my mother, and this my father. A vengeance on't! There 'tis. Now, sir, this staff is my sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand. This hat is Nan, our maid. I am the dog. No, the dog is himself, and I am the dog -- O, the dog is me, and I am myself. Ay, so, so. Now come I to my father: 'Father, your blessing.' Now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping. Now should I kiss my father -- well, he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. O, that she could speak now like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her -- why, there 'tis: here's my mother's breath up and down. Now come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a word!”
― The Two Gentlemen of Verona
― The Two Gentlemen of Verona
![Thomas Ligotti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651866983i/128466._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“As I drifted along with my bodiless invisibility, I felt myself more and more becoming an empty, floating shape, seeing without being seen and walking without the interference of those grosser creatures who shared my world. It was not an experience completely without interest or even pleasure. The clown's shibboleth of "here we are again" took on a new meaning for me as I felt myself a novitiate of a more rarified order of harlequinry. ("The Last Feast Of The Harlequin")”
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
![Vernon D. Burns](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1325744245i/5428146._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.”
― Gods of the Jungle Planet
― Gods of the Jungle Planet
![Heinrich Böll](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1632494612i/39326._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“... Posai il mio cuscino sul terzo gradino dal basso, mi sedetti, presi il cappello e vi misi dentro la sigaretta: non proprio nel mezzo e non in un angolo, proprio così come se vi fosse stata gettata dall’alto e cominciai a cantare: “Il povero Papa Giovanni…”. Nessuno badava a me, non sarebbe neppure stato un bene: dopo una, due, tre ore avrebbero pur cominciato ad accorgersi di me. Interruppi la mia strofa quando udii la voce al microfono che annunciava un treno da Amburgo… Allora andai avanti. Mi spaventai quando la prima moneta cadde nel cappello: era un soldo, colpì la sigaretta, la sospinse troppo da parte. La rimisi al posto giusto e ripresi a cantare.”
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“I would do anything just to see you smile,
but I don't have any talent to be a clown anymore.”
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but I don't have any talent to be a clown anymore.”
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![Osamu Dazai](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1650906149i/113561._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“He murmured, 'You did it on purpose.'
I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had deliberately missed the bar, but that Takeichi should have been the one came as a bolt from the blue. I felt as if I had seen the world before me burst in an instant into the raging flames of hell. It was all I could do to suppress a wild shriek of terror.”
― No Longer Human
I trembled all over. I might have guessed that someone would detect that I had deliberately missed the bar, but that Takeichi should have been the one came as a bolt from the blue. I felt as if I had seen the world before me burst in an instant into the raging flames of hell. It was all I could do to suppress a wild shriek of terror.”
― No Longer Human
![Ana Claudia Antunes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416833706i/4367104._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“This was all just fantasies in the dark, you see,
And who was never parading as a clown... Me!”
― Pierrot & Columbine
And who was never parading as a clown... Me!”
― Pierrot & Columbine
![Tom Robbins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1430660478i/197._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
![Lynne Ewing](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1255315463i/33461._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“But it was only her old rival Payasa standing behind her.
"¿De dónde?" Payasa sauntered toward her, head thrown back, joy on her face. She wore a blue plaid Pendleton jacket over khakis. Harsh, thick liner circled her defiant eyes.
Her real name was Graciela. Payasa was her placa. It meant "clown." Her street name came from the way she wore her makeup, definitely not from her sense of humor.”
― The Choice
"¿De dónde?" Payasa sauntered toward her, head thrown back, joy on her face. She wore a blue plaid Pendleton jacket over khakis. Harsh, thick liner circled her defiant eyes.
Her real name was Graciela. Payasa was her placa. It meant "clown." Her street name came from the way she wore her makeup, definitely not from her sense of humor.”
― The Choice
![Fabien Maréchal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1724340336i/6698580._UY200_CR1,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Il aurait été d'un naturel jovial s'il n'était pas devenu journaliste. Dans sa jeunesse, il avait envisagé de se faire clown.”
― Nouvelles à ne pas y croire
― Nouvelles à ne pas y croire
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