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Quotes About Ugliness

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I'm not scared of beauty, but if you fall in love with a beautiful man, it's not easy. It's easier to be in love with an ugly man. Beauty has a kind of power.
~ Alessandro Michele
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
~ H. G. Wells
I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.
~ Amy Sedaris
I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.
~ Juliette Lewis
Bitterness is so ugly.
~ Amy Heckerling
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
~ Steven Weinberg
Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.
~ Julie Plec
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
~ Corin Nemec
I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.
~ Jessica Hahn
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
~ Goldwin Smith
I think rage is so ugly.
~ Jennifer Aniston
An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
~ Ross MacDonald
I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
~ Jim Parrack
It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
~ Victor LaValle
I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
~ Rachel Kushner
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
~ J. R. Smith
I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.
~ James Gunn
I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and bad things were ugly. But that's not how the world works.
~ Trevor Paglen
The funny thing about nationalism is that there are two sides to it. Some parts of it are beautiful, but there's an ugly side as well.
~ Gregory Porter
Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.
~ Kate Gosselin
I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation!
~ Kanika Dhillon
Nobody wants to pay to see a real chick fight because it's ugly and it doesn't sell.
~ Ivory
God don't like ugly.
~ Jermaine O'Neal