Ugliness Quotes - Page 6

• Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Secret, Deformity, Terrible

  "Emily Climbs".

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• I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.

  Nicole Krauss

  Years, Forgiving, Want

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

  Jules Renard

  Ugly, Sacred, Privilege

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.187, Tin House Books

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• Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera

  Gaston Leroux

  Eye, Voice, Forever

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• In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Lying

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• As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate compassion. Just by becoming aware of your cruelty, violence, ugliness... the very awareness brings new changes in you. And the energy that was involved in cruelty, in violence, starts changing. The same energy becomes purified, the same energy becomes compassion.

  Rajneesh

  Compassion, Energy, Violence

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• Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Night, August

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• How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Fall, Blow

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• ...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

  Jean Genet

  Ornaments, Monstrosity, Certain

  Jean Genet (1994). “Miracle of the Rose”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Those who do not know what love is liken it to beauty. Those who claim to know what love is liken it to ugliness.

  Tite Kubo

  Love Is, Bleach, Claims

  "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001 – August 22, 2016.

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• The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

  Thomas Hardy

  Character, Achievement, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.412, Thomas Hardy

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• ...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hands, Band, Variation

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.7, Random House

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• At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

  Agatha Christie

  Sitting, Tables, Distinction

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Five complete Hercule Poirot novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Flames, Evil

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• Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

  Goldie Hawn

  Wall, World, Comedy

  Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.206, Penguin

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• Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Kindness, Humble, Grace

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• But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Soul, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.174, Random House

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• You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

  Toni Morrison

  Knowing, Ugly, Mysterious

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.26, Random House

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• When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

  John D. MacDonald

  Tears, Looks, Behinds

  John D. MacDonald (1985). “Five complete Travis McGee novels”, Outlet

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• The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  America, Liberty, Contradiction

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• Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Light, World

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• In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

  William Saroyan

  Sorrow, Add, Delight

  The Time of Your Life (1939)

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• Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Memories, Too Much

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.498, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, Squares

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Mirrors, Looks, Environment

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