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Quotes About Ugly

They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
~ E. Lockhart
Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
~ E. Lockhart
tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
~ E. Lockhart
They were paragons of self-sacrificing womanhood. Like, 'I'm starving to death! Here, eat my only bakery bun!' 'I can't walk, I'm paralyzed, but still I see the bright side of life, happy happy!' A Little Princess and Pollyanna, let me tell you, they are selling you a pack of ugly lies.
~ E. Lockhart
T)ragedy is not glamorous...it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.
~ E. Lockhart
Our family has always loved fairy tales. There is something ugly and true in them. They hurt, they are strange, but we cannot stop reading them, over and over.
~ E. Lockhart
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
~ Edward Abbey
The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
~ Edward Abbey
Fashion Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
~ Anonymous
Sara! she cried, aghast. Mamma Sara! She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. Her short legs had seemed to have been mounting hundreds of stairs.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
But the earth is full of magic, Amor said to the Ancient One, after the feast on the plain was over. Most men know nothing of it and so comes misery. The first law of the earth's magic is this one. If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought there will be no room in it for an ugly one.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
My pain is ugly, Angel Juan. I feel like I have so much ugly pain,' says Witch Baby in a dream. 'Everyone does,' Angel Juan says. 'My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.
~ Francesca Lia Block
That horse was maybe the ugliest, square-headed animal I had ever laid eyes on and so stupid it couldn't find grass if it wasn't standing on it. So timid it would spook at a rock just on the notion the thing might jump at him and so slow you started back to the wagon for dinner as soon as you'd had breakfast. Still, he didn't know the meaning of quit, and I was used to him so I scratched him behind the ears a little
~ Frank Roderus
After all, he wrote this book here, and in the book it says he made us all to be just like him! So if we're dumb, then God is dumb — and maybe even a little ugly on the side.
~ Frank Zappa
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
~ Robyn Williams
I was such an ugly kid. When I played in the sandbox the cat kept trying to cover me up.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I'm so ugly, as a kid, I once stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I was an ugly kid. My mother breast-fed me through a straw.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.
~ Lucy Grealy
She never understood why painters made ugly things. A, who wanted them in their house? This guy, obviously . . . who had no taste, or anyway was stuck in the nineties. And 2, it seemed like showing off. Like, hey, this is ugly! In your face. People were rude and called it art.
~ Lydia Millet
People just don't get it. Appearance is arbitrary. And if it's not arbitrary the it's compensation. Pretty face, ugly heart. Either way, it's not something earned.
~ Amy Koppelman
Half of these rotund men in short Tyrolian pants, monstrously ugly but determined looking, are either Professors or Doctors.
~ Anais Nin
The loss is hers. Let her remain in this ugly world, full of diseased and soulless people. While I and the true goddesses soar to Mount Olympus. That's the greatest punishment I can impose on her, after all.
~ Andrea Kane
Common sense isn't a real thing. And its ugly cousin, fairness, is a concept invented so dumb people could participate in arguments.
~ Scott Adams