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Quotes About Sickens

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
The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The curse takes a hundred forms, twisting each good thing that should be Orico's according to the weaknesses of its nature. A wife grown barren instead of fertile. A chief advisor corrupt instead of loyal. Friends fickle instead of true, food that sickens instead of strengthening, and on and on.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
But the heart inside me sickens, dies as the land dies and now on top of the old griefs you pile this, your fury—both of you!
~ Sophocles
It sickens me to hear of people being unable to get coverage if they have a pre-existing condition, or of seniors that are struggling to afford prescriptions.
~ Jeff Van Drew
Oh, love has various properties: first the soul grows tender, then it sickens . . . but then it feels the true warmth of divine love and cries out and moans and becomes as stone flung in the forge to melt into lime, and it crackles, licked by the flame. . . .
~ Umberto Eco
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
~ George Edward Moore
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