Ugliness Quotes - Page 9

• The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

  David Brooks

  Warning, Ugly, Sometimes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're in desperate circumstances, or you think America is deeply in trouble, you're willing to tolerate that without necessarily liking it.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, America, Voters

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm certainly dismayed by what I'm seeing now. There's a lot of ugliness of a kind I've never seen in my lifetime, or heard in my lifetime. But, look, I'm a romantic. I'm hopeful.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Hopeful, Looks, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Love Is, Anime

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• All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Dream, Pain

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, Fighting

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• He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Winning, Years

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• Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness, close out all light. Long to cast away yesterday, cast away memory, cast away all jeapordy. Pray you could somehow stop uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain. Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Memories, Cutting

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Creativity, Fighting, Design

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• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Disease, Poverty

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ostriches, Ideas

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• The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Women, Ugly, Matter

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

  Marquis de Sade

  Simple, Imagination, Ordinary

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

  Bono

  Art, Jobs, Consciousness

  "The U2 Covers - No. 32: 'Love Bombing With U2'". www.hotpress.com. July 18, 2017.

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• There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

  Jane Jacobs

  Real, Struggle, Order

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.15, Vintage

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• A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

  Stephen King

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

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• I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

  John Malkovich

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

  "John Malkovich Discusses Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topography, Alternatives, World

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  Queen Victoria

  Baby, Ugly, Nasty

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• The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Hate, Anime

  Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, 27 Oct. 1986

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• If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Rocks, Interesting

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.149, Canongate Books

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• We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Trying, Together

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• Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.

  Janet Fitch

  Dream, Pain, Sick

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

  Michelle Tea

  Girl, Sweet, Nice

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