Ugliness Quotes - Page 10

• It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

  John Steinbeck

  Cutting, Sight, Support

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.59, Penguin

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• Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Discovery, Tears

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.

  Ted Dekker

  Skins, World, Found

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• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  Imelda Marcos

  Looks, Faces, Settling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Sight, Littles

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• You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Reality, People

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• Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Race, Lust

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.576, Vintage

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• The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Dignity, Crosses, Testimony

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• Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

  Khalil Gibran

  Soul, Foam, Faces

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Temporary Defeat, May, Path

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.

  Isaac Marion

  Liars, Sunrise, World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hate, Men

  "Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Evil, Optimism

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• The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

  Max Ernst

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, Kindness, Average

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Advice, Important

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• Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Color, White, Dancing

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Hate, Men

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• Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and that is real beauty. Once it is there, your physical form won't matter much. Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory. The form will become immaterial. When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Beautiful, Real

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• Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Beauty

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

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• Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Giving, Gold, Poverty

  "Satires (Satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Character, Wrinkles

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.145, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Civilization, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.98, New World Library

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• It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

  Emma Forrest

  Real, Believe, Force Fields

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.51, A&C Black

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• Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Pain, Opposites, Wish

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.110, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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