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Quotes About Disgust

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion
~ Candace Bushnell
Nothing human disgusts me . . . unless it's cruel, violent. (spoken by the character Hannah Jelkes)
~ Tennessee Williams
At that moment, he knew what death really meant and he was afraid. There was no adventure in it, no sense of purpose or choice, nothing but a sickening disgust and shock. All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish. Nothing was worth such terrible slaughter—nothing.
~ Terry Brooks
How do you tell a man—in a nice way—that he makes you sick?
~ Terry McMillan
I change my mind about the new black getup and opt for the chocolate brown outfit I was going to wear to the party. I'm not trying to inspire Michael. I just want to look inspired. God, I hope he has a big fat gut and his teeth are rotting and he can't stand up straight because his penis has fallen off and he smells like mustard.
~ Terry McMillan
All around him people were eating their unfood wih, if not actual evidence of enjoyment, then with no more actual disgust than was to be found in burger chains all over the planet. He stood up, took his tray over to the PLEASE DISPOSE OF YOUR REFUSE WITH CARE receptacle, and dumped the whole thing. If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed.
~ Terry Pratchett
and Magrat was sick all night just at the thought of it and had the dire rear.
~ Terry Pratchett
I can't watch Kevin Spacey's show anymore, though I have loved it earlier, because he has been accused of harassment. It disgusts me as a person.
~ Ileana D'Cruz
I couldn't even imagine kissing something.
~ Nadya Suleman
smells like somebody's old socks wrapped around a dead skunk, at least this one did, and the wind was blowing this way.
~ Karen Chance
Her shoes squished with the movement and, as she peered uncomprehendingly down at them, a tadpole emerged from the leg of her jeans and flopped about on the ground. " Eew! " She pointed a shaking finger at it. "A tadpole. I had a tadpole in my pants!" "Lucky tadpole," he murmured.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Deep feelings indeed, Circenn thought morosely. Deep disgust with myself.
~ Karen Marie Moning
She pulled a face.
~ Karen Miller
The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.
~ Fuyumi Ono
She would never want to make a shooter—she, Dov's student to her core, found them disgusting, immoral, and the disease of an immature society;
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Thank you for watching over her, you piece of shit. Thanks for that, if nothing else." She backed away, repulsed by the thing that had once been a man, or had at least called itself a man.
~ Gary McMahon
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
~ Brian Eno
Politics disgusts me.
~ Brigitte Bardot
I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.
~ Herman Melville
For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way. Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object—that final and romantic object, too many would have turned from in disgust.
~ Herman Melville
Judd sighed. I don't know why people take criticism so seriously. One good creator is worth all the critics who ever lived. Criticism is necessary to literature, Hawke said, and felt a fierce disgust with himself. It was as though he were trying to soothe a homicidal lunatic. Judd said, Nonsense, criticism is a minor form of entertainment, a sort of piggy-back writing that rides on other men's work.
~ Herman Wouk
took a couple of pork slices; and by dipping them completely in mustard sauce she got them down without any trouble. Eating the pork gave her an odd sense of freedom, and at the same time, though she suppressed it, a twinge of disgust. She asked Noel for another highball.
~ Herman Wouk
He kissed me a second time, his mouth was dry, he drenched me with saliva, his precious commodity, what he spits on the street.
~ Hervé Guibert
I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft