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Quotes About Disgust

I couldn't read a screenplay without puking.
~ Jim Harrison
I hate seaweed.
~ Natalie du Toit
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
~ Philip Chesterfield
Only recently a flier whom I had congratulated on his distinctions replied that in truth, his disregard of death was nothing more than disgust with life.
~ Philip Hoare
Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.
~ Philip Kerr
Jag har aldrig varit förtjust i småbarn. Ruggiga små bestar som läcker i båda ändarna, och inte har de någon respekt för lergods heller.
~ Philip Reeve
Expect to be disgusted by your own early work. If writing is your vocation, if you hope that it might be your salvation, push on through the disgust until you find one true sentence, a few words that say more than you expected, something you didn't know until you set it down.
~ Naomi Alderman
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
~ Enoch Powell
Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.
~ Tove Jansson
I don't like balloons.
~ Sarah Harding
There is nothing worse than sitting in a ballpark and somebody is vomiting behind you.
~ Oliver Luck
The only thing I won't eat is swede - I can't bear it.
~ Michael Ball
Although he, like all people, secretely enjoyed the smell of his own farts, the smell of his shit was somethig else. It was so bad as to seem evil in a moral way.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La tierra que habitamos es un error, una incompetente parodia. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables, porque la multiplican y afirman. El asco es la virtud fundamental.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Phooey, I say, and again phooey!
~ Adolf Hitler
I once saw ten minutes of The Big Breakfast and it was quite enough to convince me that television in the morning was like drinking in the morning: only real addicts could possibly do it without throwing up.
~ Adrian Gill
I have been pitiless in my criticism of the economists: for them I confess that, in general, I have no liking. The arrogance and the emptiness of their writings, their impertinent pride and their unwarranted blunders, have disgusted me. Whoever, knowing them, pardons them, may read them.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Hell,' Shane spit in disgust. 'I can't hit a girl. Here, Claire. You hit her.' He tossed her the bat.
~ Rachel Caine
the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness. As soon as you cease to be frank, you see a stain, you are forced to acknowledge imperfection, and you want only to run away and hide in shame.
~ Rachel Cusk
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
~ Walter Kirn
Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything - control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat - at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety.
~ John Grant
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
~ Alex Kapranos
If I eat a food and throw it up, I'm off that food for life. It sucks. I've actually had some favorite foods that I no longer like because of it.
~ Steven Adams