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Quotes About Disgust

The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke. My entire work as a computer expert consists of adding to the data, the cross-referencing, the criteria of rational decision-making. It has no meaning.
~ Michel Houellebecq
even the word humanism made me want to vomit, but that might have been the canapés.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Ce sont justement cette répugnance, cet ennui qu'il convient de développer en nous, afin de nous démarquer de l'espèce.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Estou farto, farto de atum. Vomito atum por todos os lados, tenho um sabor a atum entranhado até à alma.
~ Unknown
Exhausted, bored, and disgusted by nannies, she engaged a governess who would begin my education and at the same time keep an eye on the nursery maid who was to be in charge of Hubert's more menial four-year-old necessities.
~ Unknown
Grandpa pleaded with Grandma, "Stop it Opal! Stop it. Nancy was a wonderful child." Grandma ignored his pleas and said as she left the room, "I'm disgusted with you, and I suppose this is the end of our friendship.
~ Unknown
Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
English, with its heavy stresses and wobbly intonation, was dirty and repugnant to his ears
~ Unknown
Her love was a glob of phlegm on life's high street.
~ Unknown
Der Reaktionär irrt, wenn er annimmt, daß der Demokrat sein Gründe ablehnt, aber seinen Widerwillen teilt. Der moderne Welt ist ein Schweinestall, in dessen Morast der Mensch von heute sich fröhlich wälzt.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The effect of democratic rhetoric on taste is called disgust.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
I tell you straight that I would not eat such nastiness, even had I made it myself. Sugar a frog as much as you like, but never shall it pass MY lips. Nor would I swallow an oyster, for I know only too well what an oyster may resemble. But have some mutton, friend Chichikov. It is shoulder of mutton, and very different stuff from the mutton which they cook in noble kitchens — mutton which has been kicking about the market-place four days or more.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Com'è ripugnante la realtà! Che cosa è in confronto al sogno?
~ Nikolai Gogol
You look as if you have bitten into a turd.
~ Norman Spinrad
Ma seule distraction est d'aller, le dimanche, au sortir de la messe, chez Mme Gouin, l'épicière… Le dégoût m'en éloigne, mais l'ennui, plus fort, m'y ramène.
~ Octave Mirbeau
I heard disbelief and questioning, threats and cursing, honor and disgust.
~ Octavia E. Butler
He said politicians turned his stomach.
~ Octavia E. Butler
At this time of year the world is at its most detestable.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
to the door of the undesirable little apartment, flinging it open, it seemed to Laurel, with a gesture of disgust. But Laurel's mother told her she ought to be thankful that such things as cheapest rooms existed. "It is only by occupying the cheapest room in the house, that you and I can go to nice hotels, where nice people go," Mrs. Dallas explained to her daughter.
~ Unknown
As part of Camus' refusal to debate his political enemies publicly after their vitriolic responses to the publication of 'The Rebel'] At this point, the least sentence I might say will be used in a way that disgusts me in advance. ... It would be impossible for me in that case to continue expressing myself with academic politeness. I am mistaken for a deliberately polite man whom one may insult in all safety.
~ Unknown
Verso il denaro nutro una specie di rancore misto a disagio, verso la miseria un odio misto a ribrezzo, per i falsi apostoli dell'uguaglianza un disprezzo illimitato.
~ Oriana Fallaci
What is with these guys? Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat? I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.
~ Unknown