Quotes About Revulsion

She thought about his odd appearance, but could find no revulsion in her heart—perhaps only someone who was very ugly or very beautiful could understand how little beauty mattered.

In the gamut of creatures, only man inspires a sustained disgust.

On voudrait parfois être cannibale, moins pour le plaisir de dévorer tel ou tel que  pour celui de le vomir.

I hate fashion!

I have in my mind an obscenity so great that I could vomit the most dreadful words and it wouldn't be enough!

The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.

Being on the toilet stool is the grossest thing there is, to me.

She thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of revulsion against that code..

Sometimes there just isn't enough vomit in the world.

oh shit it's shit

Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on rational argument, which prompted our refusal to enter the NKVD schools… People can shout at you from all sides: 'You must!' And your own head can be saying also: 'You must!' But inside your breast there is a sense of revulsion, repudiation. I don't want to. It makes me feel sick. Do what you want without me; I want no part of it.

Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

It wasn't the body," he said. "I've seen worse things in our fridge.

In broad strokes, punk happened after arena rock like Jimmy Carter happened after Watergate: there was enough revulsion to momentarily contemplate an alternative, but then the underlying conservative dynamic reasserted itself.

Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!" Snowpaw was circling frantically, flicking her tongue like an adder

I've never really liked horror films.

We looked at the village. I saw nothing that did not turn my stomach.

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

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion.

He is a pimple on the cock of humanity

she thought of the world's code that worshipped white lies as an act of mercy—she felt a stab of a revulsion against that code, suddenly seeing its full ugliness for the first time

Never mind that poverty, race, and occupation play a huge role in determining one's health status, the doctrine of individual responsibility means that the less-than-fit person is a suitable source not only of revulsion but resentment.

A disgust and revulsion towards the species which has, as a further qualification, the disgust towards ourselves.