Top 100 Beauty Ugliness Quotes
#1. When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.
Lao-Tzu
#2. Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.
Marcelo Gleiser
#3. Life is beautiful. It's even more beautiful when you learn to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness and in and around you.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
#5. Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.
Is and is not produce one another.
The difficult is born in the easy,
long is defined by short, the high by the low.
Sam Hamill
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?
Mary Balogh
#10. 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
#11. For true beauty - beauty, as it were, with a capital B - is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.
Rick Yancey
#12. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching
Scott Westerfeld
#13. Everything I thought I knew about what it meant to be a man was stripped away. What remained was what it meant to be a man who loved a woman as much as I did. To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death.
Emma Scott
#14. It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Thornton Wilder
#15. Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.
Miuccia Prada
#16. Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.
Edmund Burke
#17. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#18. No matter what ugliness and destruction you may witness around you, I want you always to believe that the tiniest glimpse of beauty here and there is a reflection of the gods' abode.
Vaddey Ratner
#20. Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?
Jean Toomer
#21. Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.
Neal Stephenson
#22. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
Charlie Brooker
#23. I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.
Rose McGowan
#24. Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#25. No one who is good can ever be ugly.
Roald Dahl
#26. It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.
Laozi
#27. Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
Eliphas Levi
#29. All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
Edith Sitwell
#30. Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can do this. It will make the world a better place for mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#32. Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.
Rajneesh
#34. In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world.
Orna Ross
#35. [Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ...
William Morris
#36. There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.
Martin Puryear
#37. Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.
Gerard Way
#39. Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
Jean Genet
#40. If you can't find happiness in the ugliness, you're not going to find it in the beauty, either.
Chip Gaines
#41. Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called the anti-beauty quark. Could it be that ugly people now have something tangible to blame?
Michael Quinion
#42. The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.
Charles Baudelaire
#43. Beauty is a creature which lives everywhere: Under the ocean, above the clouds, even in the remote deserts! Wherever the ugliness may be on this universe, beauty will also be there giving hope to our lives!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Christianity was beauty created by controlling a million monsters of ugliness ... modern art and science practically mean having the million monsters and being unable to control them ...
G.K. Chesterton
#45. 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
#46. Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.
Leo Buscaglia
#47. I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio ... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
Gerard Butler
#48. Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
John Frusciante
#49. I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.
Marguerite Duras
#50. 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
#51. The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#52. That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
Don DeLillo
#53. He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
R.C. Sproul
#54. Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.
Johnny Depp
#55. The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
Eric Maisel
#56. It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Abraham Maslow
#57. Ugly or pretty, personal tastes determine the limits of the look. It's a very thin line and it's different for everyone. In the end, fashion is about catching people's attention, whether it's via extreme beauty of extreme ugliness. It's up to us to decide if it works.
Lady Gaga
#58. Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
Yasmin Mogahed
#59. Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?
Florence Earle Coates
#60. 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
#61. Anyone can take a nice picture of something pretty. Being able to show the beauty in ugliness and the interest in tedium - that's what makes you a real photographer.
Becca Mills
#62. Bartender's smile widened. His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was
William Gibson
#63. The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
J. Rufus Fears
#64. All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest, in some way find that the ugliness of their sin is taken away and the beauty of their sorrow is revealed to them.
Oscar Wilde
#65. Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close
Dalia Mogahed
#66. Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.
Rem Koolhaas
#67. The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
Max Ernst
#68. Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.
Ray Bradbury
#69. This was part of the Nazis' plan, do you see? To make even us believe that we had no place on this earth. But then the ugliness, the brutality would be pierced by this ray of beauty, and you'd think . . .
Laura Marx Fitzgerald
#71. What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Joseph Brodsky
#72. I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.
Gerard Way
#73. All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is;
Lao-Tzu
#74. In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.
Debasish Mridha
#75. True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Winter came to an end, and spring arrived, in its fully glory. I remember looking at the blooming trees and flowers and thinking of how incongruous is the beauty of nature against the ugliness of man.
Henry Orenstein
#77. It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.
Cassandra Clare
#78. When I focus on beauty, I can find it even in the midst of ugliness.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Beauty is, in some ways, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages, nevertheless a beautiful object must always follow certain rules ... Ugliness is unpredictable and offers an infinite range of possibilities. Beauty is finite. Ugliness is infinite, like God.
Umberto Eco
#80. There's beauty and there's ugliness. You have to love both.
Sandra Harner
#81. Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.
Lao-Tzu
#82. Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
Edward Abbey
#84. If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love ... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous ... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.
Yasmina Khadra
#85. Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.
Giacomo Casanova
#86. Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden
only ugliness and deformity.
L.M. Montgomery
#87. I decided that it was like the difference between the beautiful old Godsend graves and the new ones open to receive coffins (which I never can bear to look at); that time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith
#88. When we're together," he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.
Ellen Marie Wiseman
#89. The tyrant is asleep to beauty and awake to ugliness.
Joshua Emmet
#90. I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
John Fowles
#91. Life has its beauty in its simplicity.
Ugliness raises her head with complexity.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#93. Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.
Lewis H. Lapham
#94. Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
Roger Scruton
#97. What is current in the media is definitive. Sin can be made into virtue, virtue into sin; propaganda can be made into truth, truth into propaganda; beauty can be reframed as Kitsch and ugliness celebrated as beauty.
Bruce G. Charlton
#98. 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
#99. The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.
T. S. Eliot
#100. If there is beauty, there is ugliness. If there is good, there is bad. Being and nonbeing and difficult and easy and high and low and long and short and before and after and need, depend, create and define each other.
James Frey
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