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Quotes About Revulsion

It tastes better than a rock." Allie tossed back the quarter inch Harper had given her in a single swallow, then made a face. "Oh, God. No it doesn't. This is piss. Like drinking gasoline after someone stirred it with a Butterfinger. Or like a banana smoothie that went rotten. Horrible." "You
~ Joe Hill
At once he was horrified too; saw that the idea was monstrous; abused
~ E.M. Forster
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.
~ Edgar Saltus
I personally do not find puke funny. I find it disgusting.
~ Lucy Punch
The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
~ Penn Jillette
By God!' Christopher exclaimed. 'I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydraulic-lifted, hot-house aired beastliness of fornication.…
~ Ford Madox Ford
wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
~ Frank Herbert
Sometimes I'm overcome with such an aversion to human beings that I can barely refrain from retching.
~ Franz Kafka
my feelings were big, sad, comfortless, of a thinking animal, my heart acting like an orb filled too big for my chest, not from revulsion, which I have to say I didn't feel, but over-all general misery.
~ Saul Bellow
Yes, there are good reasons for revulsion and fear. But revulsion and fear impair judgment. Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
~ Saul Bellow
The dying: he sensed them all around him. Through the stink of mud and smoke rolled the smell of blood, heavy and sweetly enticing. His thirst rose, independent of his horror. Thirst and revulsion. The powerful tang of death and blood congealed in the back of his throat.
~ Freda Warrington
What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Damn, I need eye bleach.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Disgust was an organ in Hunt's gut. The more he thought about it, the more it churned.
~ John Hart
Trinidad Jame$ is the most garbage piece of rapper that has ever existed on the face of the earth.
~ Hopsin
I've never been a big gore guy.
~ Jon Bernthal
TIMATOV," which I've learned means Think I'm About to Openly Vomit
~ Gary Shteyngart
Good God! It is horrible! He is no better than a mummy!
~ George Eliot
If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
~ Katie Couric
Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?
~ Sam Lipsyte
Increasingly the United States found itself isolated. Having for two decades enjoyed its status as champion of the free world, it was increasingly the target of bitter criticism abroad and at home, where a growing number of prominent intellectuals and church leaders denounced the bombing campaign as barbaric. The military might disdain the fickle nature of public sympathy, but a democracy cannot sustain a war effort without it, and moral revulsion was growing.
~ Mark Bowden
Foosball is a vile game...for vile people." - Shirley Jackson, 1953
~ Shirley Jackson
Four or five cockroaches exploded from the inside of his shin pad, scurrying in all directions on the ice. Cockroaches. Those big, black ugly bugs so gross they make beetles look cuddly.
~ Sigmund Brouwer