Quotes About Aversion

Fear is the brother of hate. One

Of course, they don't like him! Liking is for ninny-hammers. Real men elicit rancor. Pausing for a moment of deep consideration, she added, Loathing, even. But never liking. Hatred, perhaps? suggested Mary's brother-in-law, hiding his amused smile behind a tone of excessive gravity. Mrs. Fustian was not impressed. Certainly not. Any common laborer can hate. True connoisseurs prefer more subtle shades of aversion.

Pleasure and pain are the great objects of desire and aversion: but these are distinguished not by reason, but by immediate sense and feeling. If virtue, therefore, be desirable for its own sake, and if vice be, in the same manner, the object of aversion, it cannot be reason which originally distinguishes those different qualities, but immediate sense and feeling.

when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation.

There are chaps who don't care for them, you know. Simply can't abide them. Can't stand the sight of them, their titties and their big sit-upons

filth was one of the things that turned you off sex. Smell and stains.

Pale pink salmon is the only color I cannot abide––although, naturally, I adore pink. I love the pale Persion pinks of the little carnations of Provence and Schiaparelli's pink, the pink of the Incas…And though it's so vieux jeu I can hardly bear to repeat it––pink is the navy blue of India.

If you master your mind, it will remain naturally concentrated, peaceful and aware. You will even be able to wander around in a crowd without being distracted and carried away by desire or aversion.

He did not want to see the war movie. It would be full of shit.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

to taking an action that could make life even worse. Psychologists call this "loss aversion." Research in cognitive

It rankled deeply that people who had never seen a battle should have such a strong aversion to the war. He'd actually seen people cross to the other side of the street to avoid passing him, and a man had spit at the sight of a crippled soldier begging outside the city gates.

I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.

I don't even like most people.

I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.

Eurgh. She had never liked the stuff. Too many dead rats in the bottom of the barrel for her taste.

bête noire French n. (pl. bêtes noires pronunc. same) a person or thing that one particularly dislikes. French, literally 'black beast'.

I can't sit through dinner with somebody I don't like.

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

I break out in hives whenever I hear the word disrupt applied to cooking.

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.