Quotes About Repulsion

Lo similar se atrae, los opuestos se repelen.

I hate rodents. I cannot stand rodents. I couldn't even watch 'Ratatouille,' which is an animated film.

But a sick feeling had settled into me, as I looked on this darkling house, with all of its stinking lust and fear, all of its horrid hate worn openly upon it to my Sight, like a mantle of flayed human skin on the shoulders of a pretty girl with gorgeous hair, luscious lips, sunken eyes, and rotting teeth. It repulsed me and it made me afraid.

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

Tamas is typified as darkness or inactivity; Rajas is activity, expressed as attraction or repulsion; and Sattva is the equilibrium of the two. In

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

nothing but a pile of bloody garbage.

Most people felt either drawn to Ian or rejected by him, depending on how they interpreted his demeanour. He is described by Mike Kelly, a childhood acquaintance who lived nearby, as a person one would cross the road to avoid, merely because his eyes said: 'Stay Away'.

One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

I can't stand dogs.

You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

You do want to see him, but at the same time you don't. He attracts and repels you equally.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck—you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

uncomfortable as I felt around him, and as much as he repulsed me, it was impossible not to be simultaneously fascinated by him, for his was a consistently intoxicating presence. Whenever I saw him, I found myself in a state of near paralysis. In this, I was not alone. Everyone hated him, but no one could keep their eyes off him.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

Now the truth is, I felt rather unaccountably towards the beautiful stranger. I did feel, as she said, "drawn towards her," but there was also something of repulsion. In this ambiguous feeling, however, the sense of attraction immensely prevailed. She interested and won me; she was so beautiful and so indescribably engaging.