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Quotes About Disgust

To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else.
~ Andre Gide
He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything.
~ Andre Gide
I returned to Moscow from Italy to find everything in a foul state. My room at home full of guests, smoking, loud music, wine and brandy spilt on the table. Quite revolting.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
I was sent a copy of Richard Dawkins' amusing book, The God Delusion, by an anonymous donor, so I feel I should at least try to review it. This isn't easy. I got as far as page 36 before chucking it across the room in disgust. I was in the Boston Tea Party on Park Street in Bristol. I warned the other customers to get out of my line of fire first.
~ Andrew Rilstone
I nibbled on the edge—it tasted like a piece of bologna that had met a violent death and been embalmed.
~ Sam Torode
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
you curdled clot of whores piss
~ Sara Douglass
I hate this stinking little butt crack of a town!
~ Scott Heim
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
~ John Cage
The ancient proverb says, "Satiety   produces disgust
~ John Calvin
paunch lapping at his belt like a pale tongue, peeping out from beneath the fabric of his golf shirt, hairy and somehow obscene. He was
~ John Connolly
I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
~ John Cusack
Mind you, I don't know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth." - Some Hope
~ Edward St. Aubyn
A hypocrite cannot hide a longer its hypocrisy and breaks the reality itself that it poses. It just disgusts and repels harmony and unity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Had it really been so wonderful? I knew very well that at that time, too, there had been shame. And uneasiness, and humiliation, and disgust: accept, submit, force yourself. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
~ Elena Ferrante
Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?
~ Elena Ferrante
He left before she woke up—because of how disgusted he was by women's tears and prayers, "which change everything yet are really of no consequence." I thought about that a lot: about what she could have said that would have been of consequence.
~ Elif Batuman
A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day
~ Arab proverb
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
~ Horace
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in another or better life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
dalam keramahan tidak ada kebencian terhadap manusia--inilah mengapa begitu banyak hal yang menjijikkan
~ Friedrich Nietzsche