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Quotes About Ugliness

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
El mundo es bello, pero la gente lo hace feo
~ Sharon Cameron
He was so handsome it was kind of adorable when he looked horrible.
~ Sharon Olds
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
~ Tina Brown
After Mother got her picture, we all stood around the fire truck eating moon-shaped cookies dusted with powdered sugar that the mayor's wife had brought in some Tupperware. It was stuff like that that'd break your heart about Leechfield, what Daddy meant when he said the town was too ugly not to love.
~ Mary Karr
something had been lost that was perhaps an essential ingredient - a man can live without self-respect, but a group shatters, dispersed by the ugliness it sees reflected in itself.
~ Mary McCarthy
I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
~ Mary Shelley
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.
~ Mary Shelley
I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived. I
~ Mary Shelley
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God in pity made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of your's, more horrid from its very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
she thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of a revulsion against that code, suddenly seeing its full ugliness for the first time
~ Ayn Rand
because how could something so awful also contain something so impossibly good?
~ Barry Eisler
I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Those who do not know what love is liken it to beauty. Those who claim to know what love is liken it to ugliness.
~ Tite Kubo
Some people degenerate into the hell of resentment and the hatred of Being, but most refuse to do so, despite their suffering and disappointments and losses and inadequacies and ugliness, and again that is a miracle for those with the eyes to see it.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Hell is a place of drop ceilings, rusted ventilation grates, and fluorescent lights; the dismal ugliness and dreariness and general depression of spirit that results from these cost-saving features no doubt suppresses productivity far more than the cheapest of architectural tricks and the most deadening of lights saves money. Everyone looks like a corpse under fluorescents. Penny-wise and pound-foolish indeed.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Az orvos csak annyit tud, hogy szépen beszél meg rondán ír.
~ Jorge Amado
Coronel defendía también su preferencia por las feas diciendo que cuánta belleza debía haber en una mujer fea, cuando, a pesar de ser fea nos atraía,
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Profonde est la haine qui brûle contre la beauté dans les cœurs abjects.
~ Ernst Junger
WITCH, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
~ bierce ambrose vi
Music can provide a much-needed break from life's harsh moments, but Eddy Current Suppression Ring has no interest in creating a sonic fire escape for the distraught. Instead, the band embraces the real world, wrapping its arms around the beautiful and the ugly alike.
~ Anthony Fantano
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
~ Mo Yan
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
~ Gregory Maguire
Blogis nÄ—ra negeri poelgiai, o tai, kaip bjauriai po to jautiesi.
~ Gregory Maguire