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Quotes About Aversion

Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions. We all create suffering for ourselves through our resistance, through our desire to have things different than the way they are - that is, our clinging or aversion.
~ Noah Levine
Revulsion gave heat to his heals.
~ Clive Barker
But no; he did not like cabbages
~ Virginia Woolf
I loathe popular pulp, I loathe go-go gangs, I loathe jungle music, I loathe science fiction with its gals and goons, suspense and suspensories. I especially loathe vulgar movies—cripples raping nuns under tables, or naked-girl breasts squeezing against the tanned torsos of repulsive young males. And, really, I don't think I mock popular trash more often than do other authors who believe with me that a good laugh is the best pesticide.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nichts auf der Welt verabscheue ich mehr als kollektive Aktivität, diese öffentliche Badeanstalt, wo sich die Behaarten und die Glitschigen zu einer Multiplizierung der Mittelmäßigkeit treffen.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I don't really like knees.
~ laurent yves saint
But the dog who is rabid is not by bowl attracted. (Mais le chien qui est enragé n'est par gamelle attiré)
~ Charles de Leusse
The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.
~ Charles Dickens
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy
~ Groucho Marx
It is an old truth that men and women sometimes miss what they hate as much as what they love.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
~ H. L. Mencken
I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.
~ James Jones
Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.
~ James Joyce
No, I ain't wanted there, I don't like it there, I ain't coming in there . . . Good-bye.
~ James Lee Burke
In India, I personally believe yes, there is a clear fear of unknown; there's a lot of risk aversions in science and technology. They want predictability in everything they do, and it starts from people. It starts from investors. It starts from the regulators. You see that mindset across the society.
~ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.
~ Judy LaMarsh
I never grew up on a staple diet of Hindi cinema. In fact, when I was a VJ, I was averse to it. Purely because I could never imagine myself being an actor.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.
~ Paul O'Grady
Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed by too much of it, which explains why the introvert is ready to leave a party after an hour and the extravert gains steam as the night goes on.
~ Laurie Helgoe
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I am" is but a deception; "I want" is but an appeasement [of ego]; "The other" is but an enemy's word; "I do not want" is a hindrance. 39 "Self and others" are terms of division; "Attachment and aversion" words of conflict; He who makes such distinctions Has become deficient in profound Dharma.
~ Thupten Jinpa
I hate jeans for no reason.
~ Park Chan-wook
I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise.
~ Roz Chast