Quotes About Repugnance

I hate puppets so much.

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Comienzo a ver las cosas con mayor claridad. Ahora sé por qué el primer día no me fiaba de él. Sus acciones se hallan desprovistas de sentimiento y de imaginación. Motivadas por meros hábitos de vida, de aprehensión y de análisis. Es un saltamontes. Ahora ha saltado a mi vida. Mi sensación de repugnancia se intensifica.

From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.

I've never been a big gore guy.

What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, ma not become picturesque through aerial distance? What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

El crimen del loco consiste en que se prefiere a los demás. Esta preferencia impía me repugna en los que matan y me espanta en los que aman. La criatura amada ya no es, para esos avaros, sino una moneda de oro en que crispar los dedos. Ya no es un dios: apenas es una cosa. Me niego a hacer de ti un objeto, ni siquiera el Objeto amado. (p. 50)

Foosball is a vile game...for vile people." - Shirley Jackson, 1953

Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.

I do loathe explanations.

I hate dancing.

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

they must at last grow weary of their mutual repugnance, and begin to love one another! for love, not hate, is deepest in what Love 'loved into being.

There is no excuse for me. If I had not been crazy with jealousy I should never have said what I did to you. I love you!' 'No doubt I should be flattered, but as I can scarcely conceive of a worse fate than to be married to you, this declaration fills me with repugnance!

I took a strong dislike to him right then to save time and effort later.

It is no longer sufficient to love others as himself and to do as much for them as he would do for himself; rather, a repugnance arises in him… towards the will-to-live, towards the core and essence of that world recognized as filled with misery.

Indeed, in this age in which everything is held to be permissible so long as it is freely done, in which our given human nature no longer commands respect, in which our bodies are regarded as mere instruments of our autonomous rational wills, repugnance may be the only voice left that speaks up to defend the central core of our humanity. Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.48

I hate horror movies, with a passion.

Whenever I hear the word 'smegma', I become physically ill.

He is a pimple on the cock of humanity

especialmente por parte de los moralistas altruistas que se han convencido de que su sensibilidad estética y la repugnancia instintiva deberían acabar con cualquier esfuerzo humano por salvar vidas.»

Quizá no deba esperar transmitir con meras palabras la indecible repugnancia que puede reinar en el absoluto silencio y la estéril inmensidad.

For, obviously, things were not as simple as the framers of laws had imagined them to be, and if it was of small legal relevance, it was of great political interest to know how long it takes an average person to overcome his innate repugnance toward crime, and what exactly happens to him once he had reached that point. To this question, the case of Adolf Eichmann supplied an answer that could not have been clearer and more precise.

la contradictoria mezcla de repugnancia y fascinación