Ugliness Quotes - Page 15

• If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

  Matt Haig

  Thinking, Looks, Ugly

  Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Beauty, Sovereign, Conventions

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• The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.

  Eric Maisel

  Beauty, Beautiful, Perfection

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

  I. L. Peretz

  Sin

  I. L. Peretz (2013). “The I. L. Peretz Reader”, p.329, Open Road Media

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• What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.

  Camille Paglia

  Loss, Skins, Scratches

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Beautiful, Work, Home

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• The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Real, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.291, Cambridge University Press

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• Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.

  Tiffany Baker

  Weed, Flower, Shadow Of Death

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• ... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

  Edith Sitwell

  Skins, Endure

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wall, Ignorance, Writing

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

  Karen Traviss

  Reality, Light, Color

  Karen Traviss (2011). “True Colors: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando)”, p.38, Del Rey

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• AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Unique, Compassion

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• Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who really know women understand that the eye reveals only a minute fraction of what a woman can offer us. When God bade mankind be fruitful and multiply, Doctor, He was thinking of the ugly as well as of the beautiful. I am convinced I might add, that the aesthetic criterion does not come from God but from the devil. In paradise no distinction was made between ugliness and beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Eye, Thinking

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• Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Beats, Hard

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• I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

  Renee Vivien

  Beauty, Masculine

  Renée Vivien (1979). “At the sweet hour of hand in hand”

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• MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with a hunger for justice. LUST begins with a recognition of beauty. GLUTTONY begins when our enjoyment of the delectable gifts of GOD starts to consume us. IDOLATRY begins when our seeing a reflection of God in something beautiful leads to our thinking that the beautiful image bearer is worthy of WORSHIP.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Thinking, Blessing

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• Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Sorry, Compassion, Water

  "The Qualities of a Spiritual Life" by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

  John Frusciante

  Soul, World, Your Soul

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• The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

  Elie Wiesel

  Opposites, I Hate My Life, Apathy

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• Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Madness, Granted

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• Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Doe

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