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Quotes About Repulsive

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.
~ Joseph Conrad
He wiped his nose with his sleeve. Gross me out the door.
~ James Preller
Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.
~ James Purefoy
Description of Frankincense: The most glorious scent in the whole world comes from an ugly piece of resin which exudes from an unsightly scar on a repulsive tree in a dreadful desert
~ Alan Gold
Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
~ Ravi Zacharias
I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.
~ Steve Albini
She was repulsively furred with neglect and poverty, as even a good glove that has dropped down behind a bed in a hotel and has lain undisturbed for a day or two is repulsive when the chambermaid retrieves it from the dust and fluff.
~ Rebecca West
All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
~ Rebecca West
Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
I don't have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.
~ A.S. King, Ask the Passengers
These words point in the right direction, but some of them, such as embarrassed, insulted, different, and ignored, can fade with time. Real shame requires more intensity. That's why the language of this next list may make you want to turn away, but it's much closer to shame. Unclean Dishonored Filthy Shunned Disgusting Defiled Outcast Unlovable Discarded Repulsive Disgraced Worthless Loathed Scorned Vile
~ Edward T. Welch
Instead of saying "Amanda took one look at the hotel room and recoiled in disgust," describe the room in such a way that the readers feel that disgust for themselves. You don't want to give your readers information. You want to give them experiences.
~ Renni Browne
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
~ William Robertson Smith
But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
~ Deb Caletti
It's the kind of stink that would turn a buzzard vegan.
~ Richard Kadrey
that ridiculous machine, That nauseating, foul, unclean, Repulsive television screen!
~ Roald Dahl
If you looked closer still (hold your noses, ladies and gentlemen), if you peered deep into the moustachy bristles sticking out over his upper lip, you would probably see much larger objects that had escaped the wipe of his hand, things that had been there for months and months, like a piece of maggoty green cheese or a moldy old cornflake or even the slimy tail of a tinned sardine.
~ Roald Dahl
Sometimes, the monsters are terribly beautiful, and the heroes loathsome.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
You have much in common with bad chicken salad...Nausea inducing occasionally deadly. A smell that is decidedly off...
~ Rob Thurman
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Schwarzschild radius of the universe is the huge distance of 1.5 × 1027m (calculated from the mass of 1054kg) — a distance which is larger than the radius of the current observable universe. So the whole mass of the universe is contained within its Schwarzschild radius. This means that, for the universe as a whole, the repulsive effect becomes highly-significant. Gravity would act to expand the universe.
~ Andrew Thomas
The striga was in no hurry with her next attack. She approached slowly, baring her fangs, dribbling repulsively
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
the fifth force is a repulsive one that operates over extremely long distances.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Nous sommes tous merveilleux, et nous sommes tous répugnants, Alessandro Baricco
~ Alessandro Baricco