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Quotes About Disgust

Something that you would normally never consider eating, something completely repulsive and ugly and disgusting, something so gross it would make you vomit just looking at it, becomes absolutely delicious if you're starving.
~ Gary Paulsen
TIMATOV," which I've learned means Think I'm About to Openly Vomit
~ Gary Shteyngart
She hated television but flicked through the channels until she hated it even more....
~ George D. Shuman
Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.
~ George Eliot
Good God! It is horrible! He is no better than a mummy!
~ George Eliot
If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
~ Katie Couric
My guess is that people with a stereotypically conservative exclusionary stance about immigration rarely have the sense that they feel disgusted that people elsewhere in the world would want to come to the United States for better lives. Instead, there is threat by the rabble, the unwashed masses, to the American way of life.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?
~ Sam Lipsyte
I dont like animals. Its a strange thing, I dont like men and I dont like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
~ Samuel Beckett
German reminded her of an old man hacking up phlegm.
~ Sara Shepard
Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.
~ Dick York
The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.
~ John Lydon
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Ignoraba que el asco es una de las formas de la obsesión y que, si deseamos algo, es más fácil pensar en ello con asco que no pensar.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Fortunately, octo-cannibalism is the sort of thing that leaves me morally outraged without actually ruining my appetite
~ Anthony Bourdain
One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts;I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was.
~ Anthony Burgess
When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.
~ Anthony Burgess
Mogo?e je imela prav, mogo?e se mu je res gnusila. Ampak gnus ni razlog za lo?itev, gnus je obenem najvišja stopnja intimnosti. Kon?na to?ka intimnosti. V kar se intimnost neizogibno razvije. Doma?nost gnusa, njegova nespremenljivost, poželenje, ki jo izzove. Hrepenenje, da bi se ti drugi še zadnji? lahko zagnusil. In da bi se pri tem vedno malo gnusil tudi samemu sebi.
~ Arnon Grunberg
The abominable goth! he cried.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I found the other two in Bran's room, and one look at their faces made it abundantly clear that they felt no better than I did. Not that the Marquis had a red nose or a thick voice--he even looked aristocratic when sick, I thought with disgust.
~ Sherwood Smith
Foosball is a vile game...for vile people." - Shirley Jackson, 1953
~ Shirley Jackson
I just hate their guts. I can't stand those rich big-shots. Spiders and rich men! May God not punish me.
~ Sholem Aleichem
But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They're never around when you need them.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Four or five cockroaches exploded from the inside of his shin pad, scurrying in all directions on the ice. Cockroaches. Those big, black ugly bugs so gross they make beetles look cuddly.
~ Sigmund Brouwer