Quotes About Ugliness

She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come true: she had been attracted to an object that was beautiful, and she had become spellbound, and then its shape had changed, and what had appeared beautiful had turned ugly.

Nebraska will transcend Springsteen, will immortalise him as a writer, because of what it says about civilisation in the range of its complexity--the beauty, the ugliness, the tenderness, the cruelty, the love, the hate, the doubt, the fear-- and because of what it says about the loneliness that lies at the heart of us all.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

A soul's ugliness can be much more ambitious than her beauty.

Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down for fear we guess At the hidden ugliness. Dusty voice that throbs with heat, Hoping with your steel-thin beat To put stitches in my mind, Make it tidy, make it kind, You shall not: I'll keep it free Though you turn earth, sky and sea To a patchwork quilt to keep Your mind snug and warm in sleep!

I can't bear to see myself in my own thoughts—I hate ugliness, you know

Il suo aspetto era brutto come le sue passioni.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast , they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

my quote is that a guy name beastly theres a guy that has a wierd face and he loves her. so much and the women didn,t like him at all. then they get in love alot in the end.and then he gets his face normal.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is "as good as she is beautiful". I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel sorry for them.

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

For everything in life, there's a counterpart in afterlife. This includes the most beautiful as well as the ugliest of phenomena.

if making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another.