Ugliness Quotes

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  The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

  James Ellis

  Mind, Ugly, Faces

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• Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Witty, Lasts

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Art Is

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.

  Serge Gainsbourg

  Funny, Lasts, Superiors

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• Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

  Daniel Goleman

  Peace, War, Weight

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• Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Joy, Heaven

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• The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Heart, Faces

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.120

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  Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

  Redd Foxx

  Beauty, Beautiful, Words Of Wisdom

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• No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

  John Ruskin

  Absolutes

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• I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn’t deserve white, and I was sick of black.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Flirty, Shoes, White

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.412, Dell

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• Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

  Douglas Horton

  Beauty, Variables, Imperfect

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• Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

  Anna Freud

  Friendship, Hate, Acting

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• Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

  Dodie Smith

  Beauty, Horror, Turns

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.92, St. Martin's Press

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• Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Degrees, Sin

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.421

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• Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Views, Ulcers

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• In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Home, House, Matter

  "Gigi". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  George Orwell

  Time, Children, Humorous

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

  Graham Greene

  Beautiful, Clever, War

  Heart of the Matter (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2

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• If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

  Oscar Wilde

  Victory, Defeat, Knows

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Beauty, Kings, Cities

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• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  Thornton Wilder

  Beauty, Evil, World

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