Quotes About Ugliness

All through those splendid years of travel Pons was as happy as was possible to a man with a great soul, a sensitive nature, and a face so ugly that any "success with the fair" (to use the stereotyped formula of 1809) was out of the question; the realities of life always fell short of the ideals which Pons created for himself; the world without was not in tune with the soul within, but Pons had made up his mind to the dissonance.

Everything people do that doesn't work has to be somebody else's fault. Next time you know, geezers'll be suing the government for getting old and kids'll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.

Soy de la opinión de que en la ceguera hacia la belleza no hay nada que implique necesariamente una ceguera hacia la fealdad, por la que Kevin ha desarrollado desde siempre una notable sensibilidad. Es muy posible que la existencia de tantos y tan diferentes matices entre lo sórdido y lo exquisito tenga por objeto que ni al espíritu más ruin se le niegue todo refinamiento.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

I took one step onto the field and stopped. What was I doing? The pure whiteness, dazzling in the sun, was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Who was I to spoil it? Snow falls. Earth says: Here—a gift for you. And what do we do? We shovel it. Blow it. Scrape it. Plow it. Get it out of our way. We push it to our fringes. Is there anything uglier or sadder than a ten-day-old snow dump? It's not even snow anymore. It's slush.

How is it you're so beautiful and so fucking ugly inside! You know it wouldn't take much to make your outside look like your inside!! I could just chop your brain out! It doesn't deserve such a pretty body...

The Chinese say that love is balance. He is the water to my fire.The chimpanzee to my bonobo. And when I am mired in life's ugliness, when I can see only what's decaying both inside and outside my own head, he is the blindness I need, the mindless faith in happy endings.

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

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly a thousand

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?