Quotes About Ugliness

So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness — self-preservation of an uglier stripe.

Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

The physical beauty of Venice and the moral ugliness of America were more and more difficult for Julian to reconcile.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Passions, deaths, storms, etc., give us great pleasure in spite of their ugliness for the simple reason that they are well imitated, and if what Parini says in his Oration on poetry1 is true, this is because man hates nothing more than he does boredom, and therefore he enjoys seeing something new, however ugly.

Nature has frequently planted astonishing genius in men of monstrously ugly appearance.

Malpelo, un monellaccio che nessuno avrebbe voluto vedersi davanti, e che tutti schivavano come un can rognoso, e lo accarezzavano coi piedi, allorché se lo trovavano a tiro. Egli era davvero un brutto ceffo, torvo, ringhioso, e selvatico.

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly that now they cannot even speak to one another. It does not demand much reflection to be appalled at the inevitable state of mind achieved by people who dare not speak freely about those things which most disturb them.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

Stvarno lepo je samo ako ne može ni?emu da služi. Sve što je korisno, ružno je, jer predstavlja potrebu, a kod ?oveka je ona gnusna i odvratna kao i njegova jadna i odvratna priroda. Najkorisnije u svakoj ku?i je klozet.

Ai o fa?? foarte ciudat?, zise el, pe jum?tate pentru sine. Ar trebui s? fii urât?.

you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

Your kind has a superstitious terror of things ugly and broken; you fear that their condition may somehow infect you.