Quotes About Ugliness

My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they're being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what's behind their eyes.

Danton himself was an astonishing man, with a face so scarred and ugly that it by-passed the normal rules of beauty and had an attractiveness of its own. At two he had been gored in the face by a cow, trampled by a herd of pigs at five, disfigured by small pox when he was ten, and kicked in the face by a bull when he was fourteen.

The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from the art level: beautiful versus ugly.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity. And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

wanted to live in the dark as a teenager until I realized that ugliness already makes you invisible

The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them. In other words, they seemed not to rely in the least on the misconceptions of others.

Some things in life are better off being ignored. Life's full of the ugly and the beautiful. Why focus too much on the ugly?

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

The average person of any race was not good-looking, but while the ugliness of others only confirmed prejudices, the homeliness of one's own people was always comforting.

big dixie which contained a mixture of rum and lime and water, well calculated to dispel the ugliness of the day and turn the night into something soft and sympathetic.

He was just someone who had grown ugly, old, and embittered, one of billions.

The Japanese believe that sadness comes from an awareness of the fragility of life at the same time one is captivated by its transient beauty. The cherry blossoms. But that is a very superficial understanding of sadness, may I say. True sadness arises when we realize that the world around us is imperishable, and rather ugly.

el amor, como dije antes, no es bello ni feo por sí mismo. Es bello si se ama obedeciendo a las leyes de la honorabilidad, y feo si se ama faltando a ellas; porque no es honrado conceder sus favores a un hombre vicioso y por malos motivos, y es honorable rendirse por buenas causas al amor de un hombre que practica la virtud.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Perhaps they thought they could bring to this valley only those things they loved, leaving behind all ugliness. We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery.

It never works that way. Once that ugliness has been forced into you, it becomes part of your blood, dilutes it, races through your heart and back out again, staining everything as it goes. The ugliness never goes away, never comes out, no matter what you do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive. All you can do is hope to control it.

With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.

You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.

Reality, ugly or beautiful as it may be, is something I cannot change

Ancient beauty is powerless against new ugliness.

The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

He is wearing he same black pants from yesterday, but no shirt, his body is brown and hard, perfectly proportioned. He knows that he is beautiful and somehow his makes him ugly.

I have used up my days believing I serve the Throne above all, but this is the filth I am dragged into.' 'Me too,' I said. 'That's something I might have said of my own life. Nothing wears an honest face. Those we admire disappoint us, or betray us. What truth may be found is uglier and more cruel than our worst expectations.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.