Disfiguring Quotes

#1. The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.

Nathan Hill

#2. We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

#3. Hell is not hot, or cold. Nor is it deep below ground, or somewhere in the sky. Instead it is a place on Earth filled with sucking bogs, disfiguring diseases and millions of tiny flesh-eating creatures.
Hell is a jungle, and it is monstrously green.

Greig Beck

#4. I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

Nick Hornby

#5. The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence.

James Calvert

#6. What happened to me separates me from the normal world in a negative way. Like a handicap or disfiguring deformity, it's too horrible for some people to deal with, and it makes them uncomfortable whenever they're around me. ~Leigh Byrne, Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

#7. I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.

Mordecai Richler

#9. The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human responses to environmental adversity.

Sylvain Tesson

#10. Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

Patricia Wentworth

#11. In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.

Albert Camus

#12. Mrs. Clutterthorpe, I can hardly think of any fate worse than becoming the mother of six. Unless perhaps it were plague, and even then I am persuaded a few disfiguring buboes and possible death would be preferable to motherhood.

Deanna Raybourn

#13. Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to dwell upon how much fun it would be and generally neglect the practicalities of the situation.

Roger Zelazny

#14. After disfiguring myself with terrible blows, Entered the city of the Trojans in order to learn 280 All the plans they were making for this grievous war.

Quintus Smyrnaeus

#15. By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

Harold C. Schonberg

#16. Once upon a time I saved Livvie. She's been saving me ever since.

C.J. Roberts

#17. I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

Shilpa Shetty

#18. Why does the Old Testament law never punish anyone by depriving him of his freedom?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#19. In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

Alberto Cairo

#20. ...if you come into the world a certain way, you might as well take advantage of it and surprise people.

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

#21. The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#22. I could survive for months, years, on a crush. It was like food. It could sustain me.

Jenny Han

#23. If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is impersonal, just a wholeness, a divineness. For the man of prayer there is God; for the man of awareness there is godliness but no God.

Rajneesh

#24. tall buildings and clustered streets of the city had her trapped like a mouse in a maze, without even the possible reward of cheese.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#25. You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff.

David Foster Wallace