Quotes About Revulsion

Man, I hate vegetables.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

Lyra's heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won. She put her arms around the skinny little form to hold him safe.

the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.

I hate rodents. I cannot stand rodents. I couldn't even watch 'Ratatouille,' which is an animated film.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. Douglas MacArthur

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and revolting, that if they could obtain a flesh diet on no other condition, they would relinquish it forever.

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

The rabid ferocity of his reaction had confirmed Mother's warnings, but I didn't yet comprehend the depth of the revulsion that I inspired or how relentless he would be in his determination to kill me.

nothing but a pile of bloody garbage.

Grief thrived in a quiet heart, and right now hers thundered with terror and revulsion

One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

We are disgusted by the things that we desire, and we desire what disgusts us.

My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back. He

I hate beyond hate.

He stepped over to Vidian and turned the man's head. There, in his left ear, he saw a small dataport. A moment's revulsion struck and passed. "All right," he said. "Who wants to download Vidian's brain?

My ambivalence, of course, only encouraged him. Any challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. If I had loved him, he would have been gone, yet my revulsion brought him back and back.

It has always seemed strange to me that it is usually men like Adam who have to do the soldiering. He did not like fighting to start with, and far from learning to love it, as some men do, he felt an increasing revulsion for violence.

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

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

If you want to get your outcasts out of sight, first you need a ghetto and then you need a prison to take pressure off the ghetto. . . . Short-term terror and revulsion are more powerful than long-term wisdom or self-interest.