Ugliness Quotes - Page 4

• But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

  Jakob Dylan

  Greed, Mazes, Opening

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• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

  John Ortberg

  Art, Jesus, Hate

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• We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

  Plotinus

  Beauty, Order

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.545, Delphi Classics

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• Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore having and not having arise together. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short contrast each other. High and low rest upon each other. Voice and sound harmonize each other. Front and back follow one another.

  Laozi

  Difficult And Easy, Voice, Long

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Interesting, Answers, Boring

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Self

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• She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Triumph, Paradox

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.44, Vintage

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• Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.

  Walter Russell

  Fear, Thinking, Light

  "The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe". Book by Glenn Clark, 1946.

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• Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that attachment is not love... just seeing the ugliness of attachment - it drops; then arises love. The same energy that was becoming attachment, released from attachment becomes a totally different energy; it becomes love.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Attachment, Facts

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• People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't put it on for God; He is their safe place, where they can be at peace.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, People, Safe

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.101, David C Cook

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• The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Endless, Repercussions

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• It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything to do with the other. Even more so: I think that there is almost a reaction against style, that brute ugliness somehow has been interpreted as being the way to go.

  Louise Wilson

  Fashion, Fall, Thinking

  "Remembering Louise Wilson OBE". AnOther Interview, origin.anothermag.com. May 17, 2014.

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• Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

  Eric Bentley

  Running, Spring, Flower

  Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press

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• When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

  William James

  Children, Men, Thinking

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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• Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Oasis, Phoenix

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Men, Giving

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Nature, Technology, Men

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.

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• Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

  Edward Abbey

  Skins, Way, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

  Serge Gainsbourg

  Endure

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• Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

  Amy Harmon

  Voice, Redemption, Rescue

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• America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.

  Stewart Udall

  Nature, Land, America

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• In the end of the film there is hope, ... There's beauty in ugliness. It's really important for us Latinos to acknowledge each other and not deny the reality, because our reality is fascinating.

  Jonathan Jakubowicz

  Reality, Important, Film

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• We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

  Freeman Dyson

  Children, Trying, Today

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path, but the loveliness of this moment was as real as wars and plagues and heartbreak. Pleasure and beauty are as valid as pain and ugliness and when I am fortunate enough to enjoy the former, I do so.

  Carolyn Hart

  Pain, Children, Real

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