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Quotes About Disgust

There was still the dirty snow, piles of it that looked like they were rotting, stained black, peppered with garbage. The white powder that loosed itself from the sky in small handfuls, like plaster falling from a ceiling, never managed to cover up the filth.
~ Simenon Georges
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Kazna odgovara krivici: da nam bude uskra?eno svako zadovoljstvo življenja, da smo dovedeni do najvišeg stepena odvratnosti prema životu.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
~ Nancy Gibbs
Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.
~ John Pollock
If there is a pattern to this baffling complexity, it may be best described as a never-ending Buddhist cycle of reincarnation. Both sides experience rapturous enchantment begetting hope, followed by disappointment, repulsion, and disgust, only to return to fascination once again.
~ John Pomfret
Neil made a face of supreme disgust, and I felt anger mushrooming inside of me. "Things like that—which people cling to as memories," he said, "it's those things that keep men from realizing their True Nature.
~ John Rechy
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity - clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
~ John Ruskin
It could very well be that if a grandfather paradox really gets going and history from the point of the twonky forward starts to come unglued... ...we all softly and suddenly vanish away. Not just you and me, but the Sun, Jupiter, Alpha Centauri and the Andromeda Galaxy. And so forth. This is known as the Cosmic Disgust Theory. Or: "If you're going to play games like that, I'll take my marbles and go home. Signed, God.
~ John Varley
mad, that's what's the matter with him," Curtis added in disgust. "Let's get out." He turned to go—then, halted—and stood still. He appeared to be listening. "What's up with you?" Hamar asked. "Both you
~ Elliott O'Donnell
From what Adam said, the young Adam that is, his grandmother was very pretty. He said that his grandfather took one look at her and decided that the 1700s would be as good a time as any to call home." "Oh, yuck!" Tony said, making a face.
~ Elvira Woodruff
Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for the world and self-pity.
~ Emil Cioran
bir inanç için ac? çekmiÅŸ olandan daha tehlikeli bir varl?k yoktur: en büyük zalimler kafas? kesilmemiÅŸ mazlumlar aras?ndan ç?kar. ac?, güç iÅŸtah?n? azaltmak ÅŸöyle dursun, onu azd?r?r; zihin de kendini bir soytar?n?n meclisinde bir kurban?nkinden daha rahat hisseder; onu, bir fikir için ölünen gösteriden daha fazla tiksindiren hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur.
~ Emil Cioran
Am abuzat de cuvîhtul dezgust. Dar ce alt termen s? aleg pentru a indica o stare în care exasperarea e neîncetattemperat? de plictiseal?, iar plictiseala de exasperare ?
~ Emil Cioran
In the gamut of creatures, only man inspires a sustained disgust.
~ Emil Cioran
De ce nu m? sinucid? Fiindc? mie mi-e scârb? atât de moarte, cât ÅŸi de via??.
~ Emil Cioran
On voudrait parfois être cannibale, moins pour le plaisir de dévorer tel ou tel que  pour celui de le vomir.
~ Emil Cioran
If disgust for the world conferred sanctity of itself, I fail to see how I could avoid canonization.
~ Emil M. Cioran
I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.
~ ballard j g iv
I do loathe explanations.
~ barrie j m iii
An abandoned shoe, a rotten tooth, a snub nose, the cook spitting in the soup of his masters are to love what a battle flag is to nationality.
~ bataille georges ii
I hate fashion!
~ Betty Catroux
I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy.
~ Chet Huntley
For my part, I would believe in no God rather than in such a God as is generally offered for believing in. How far those may be to blame who, righteously disgusted, cast the idea from them, nor make inquiry whether something in it may not be true, though most must be false, neither grant it any claim to investigation on the chance that some that call themselves his prophets may have taken spiritual bribes
~ George MacDonald