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Quotes About Disgust

Distaste ran over her face. Her eyes were not like a human's; they were black to their center and flecked with gold. I could not bring myself to meet them.
~ Madeline Miller
The funny thing is, the more you know, the more passionate you feel about life, and the more joy you feel, and the more inspired you feel, but then also the more disgusted you are with humanity [...] [this is] the paradox of life.
~ Madonna
with disgust. 'You know what mothers are like,' Nosh shrugged. 'Yeah, but your mum doesn't go round showing you up,' I pointed out.
~ Malorie Blackman
The disgust of distinguished people for snobs who want to force themselves upon them, the virile man has for the invert, the woman for every man who is too much in love with her.
~ Marcel Proust
We already know what buzzards do when they get mad. They throw up.
~ John R. Erickson
Whoever had my room last left a big pile of poopfruit on my desk, Niamh yelled, from their room. Seriously, what the actual fuck?
~ John Scalzi
I think... no, I am positive... that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we've been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.
~ John Updike
Rainbow dust? sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.
~ Unknown
All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
~ Lope de Vega
The most mysterious, most simple, most atrocious revealed herself in the answer which she made me with an air of disgust and the exact words to tell the truth I could not quite make out (even the opening words, for she did not finish her sentence). I succeeded in establishing them only a little later when I had guessed what was in her mind. We hear things retrospectively when we have understood them
~ Marcel Proust
Nutrition makes me puke.
~ Jimmy Piersall
I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
~ Henry Beard
There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
~ Pietro Aretino
There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.
~ Dave Barry
The place stank like someone had butchered a rotting cow in a Porta Potti. The
~ Unknown
Happy Fourth of July," he said in a voice thick with disgust. "Let's start another War of Independence. This time Let's separate from Washington.
~ Unknown
It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.
~ Tom Sizemore
If you don't want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.
~ Kevin Drum
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
~ Unknown
The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.
~ Mark Zandi
I hate milk. Coats your throat as bad as okra. Something just downright disgusting about it.
~ Marsha Norman
Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Stone waited there in groundling form, his opaque expression somehow conveying a deep disgust with all of them, but especially Moon.
~ Martha Wells
I wanted to find a bunch more algae-smelling gray snotty assholes and kill the shit out of every single one.
~ Martha Wells