Quotes About Aversion

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

I really really don't want to die here, among these criminally ugly furnishings.

Mais tarde descobri que não gosta nem de poesia nem de música. Ainda assim, liguei o toca-discos e dei-lhe os patrícios, Bethânia, Caetano. E se não dei televisão é porque acho aquilo o fim. Embora esteja pensando numa mas só para ver os filmes antigos. E os longas-metragens de vampiros e monstros.

Young John had always dreaded certain particular mental images, and the worst of all among these was the image of something different from the male organ of generation being thrust into a female's womb. Another was the image of a fiery rod being thrust into a man's anus.

I hate beyond hate.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Though old himself, he disliked old men.

I don't like weeds! My father made me mow weeds and cut weeds when I was a kid. I've hated weeds ever since I was 12 years old. I'll never go in the weeds! I'll never gonna take you in the weeds.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

People hate what they know and fear what they don't.

If you have lived with the fear of failure all your life, you tend to erect a window of risk aversion. In every opportunity, you first see the risks, the downsides, the possibility of failure. Someone else may look at the same image through the window of optimism and see a huge, overpowering silver lining.

We find desiring innocent, and hideous that the other should desire.

The sort of thing people call little masterpieces, trifles that are perfect gems, in fact what I loathe most in the world. The

The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

Retra recoiled from his dangling nakedness...

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.