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Quotes About Ugliness

Denn in den Menschen wohnt, verborgen in der Tiefe, die Überzeugung, alles Böse wäre hässlich und alles Gute schön, und es wird wohl nie jemand herausfinden, warum es so ist.
~ Antonia Michaelis
Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters.
~ Antonio Perez
There is a moment in which I die: when I am in front of beauty, and another in which I kill myself: when I am in front of ugliness, and a third in which I do not die, nor kill myself: when I am in front of stupidity.
~ Antonio Porchia
People who are mentally blind due to own selfishness in life even find a person with a dirty mind & good looks to be beautiful and a guy with a beautiful heart & dirty clothes to be ugly.
~ Anuj Somany
North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages…. This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe.
~ Arthur Charles Erickson
The anthropological criminologists tell us that the typical criminal is ugly: monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo [monstrous in appearance, monstrous in spirit].
~ Frederick Nietzsche
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
~ Francis Schaeffer
There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
~ Fernando Botero
Every day I yearn to focus more on heaven's beauty and worry less about earth's ugliness.
~ Rosemary Thornton
I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity
~ Marcus Aurelius
They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Why do you want to talk about ugly things?" she said. Her voice was silvery, like a music box. She waved one hand in the air to dry the nails. "We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are looking only at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.
~ Margaret Atwood
If it hurts and you feel sick and it's making you ugly, take this, from HelthWyzer; if you're ugly and it hurts and you feel sick about it, take that, from AnooYoo.
~ Margaret Atwood
Why do you want to talk about ugly things? she said. ... We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are looking only at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you. She would never tell him. Why did this drive him so crazy? It wasn't real sex was it? he asked. In the movies. It was only acting. Wasn't it? But Jimmy, you should know. All sex is real.
~ Margaret Atwood
How easy it is when you like someone to be blind to the possibilities of ugliness in them, of weaknesses too deep to be passed over with tolerance.
~ Anne Perry
She had no idea, really, what it meant to see a man's arm ripped out by the root, to see a head torn off a neck. She had no idea. We human beings live perpetually insulated from the horrors that happen all around us. No matter what she'd suffered, she had not witnessed the vicious ugliness of that kind of death. No, it had to be unreal to her, even Laura who had endured so much.
~ Anne Rice
It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time.
~ Scott Westerfeld
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
~ Scott Westerfeld
She scanned the captives, looking for Shay and David. The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. It was the cold expressions of the Specials, beautiful though they were, that seemed horrific to her now. A
~ Scott Westerfeld
She was Tally Youngblood... The girl with a pretty body and a Ugly mind.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I wonder why they never come back," Shay said. "Just to visit." Tally swallowed. "Because we're so ugly, Skinny, that's why.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Siapa pun bisa tertarik oleh yang cantik-cantik dan memesona. Tetapi bisakah ketertarikan semacam itu disebut cinta kasih? Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping.
~ Sh?saku End?
His feelings towards Feirrera were not only of contempt and hatred; there was also a sense of pity, a common feeling of self-pity of two men who shared the same fate. Yes, they were just like two ugly twins, he suddenly reflected as once he looked at Ferreira's back. They hated one another's ugliness; they despised one another; but that's what they were -- two inseparable twins.
~ Sh?saku End?