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Quotes About Hideous

Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and I've largely avoided meeting hideous people in the street. Most people tend to be charming.
~ Greg Davies
You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!
~ Richard Rogers
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
~ Donald Tusk
I'm glad that your work is at 291 — when I'm with it it seems to prop me up — makes me forget so much that is hideous — and a deep reverence for something very wonderful invariably over comes me — That's what you give me. The place breathes peace & space — human throb — a great yearning — a great closeness —
~ Sarah Greenough
But for the king the whole thing was worse than politically hideous and cynical; it was bitterly personal because of Fox's pernicious influence on the king's eldest son, the Prince of Wales.
~ Eric Metaxas
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.
~ Charles Palliser
I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough, is a hilarious biography of one of the most hideous directors who ever picked up a movie camera - Andy Milligan.
~ John Waters
Oh cursed creator, why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turn from me in disgust?
~ Mary Shelley
Lovecraft expresses this same sentiment as follows: "Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
~ Eugene Thacker
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
~ H. P. Lovercraft
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species—if separate species we be—for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
What we did see—for the mists were indeed all too malignly thinned—was something altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable. It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist's "thing that should not be";
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Spurred on by a voice which must have come from the hideous soul of the forest, I resolved to enter the beckoning gloom in spite of the ponderous chains which barred my passage.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I hate the moon—I am afraid of it—for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous. It
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal— cacodemoniacal—and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Why Alexia that is quite beautiful. It does ot reflect your customary taste at all approved Miss Hisselpenny with glee. Trust Ivy to like the hideous thing for it's looks.
~ Gail Carriger
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
~ C.P. Snow
True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
~ Shusaku Endo