Human Ugliness Quotes

#1. It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Gregory Maguire

#2. O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so grotesque, you are the revealer of human ugliness. You uncover all shortcomings, all deformities and all defects. You turn every face touched by you into a caricature.

Guy De Maupassant

#3. A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Oh, dear Hazel." Aphrodite folded her fan. "Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness.

Rick Riordan

#5. The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

Herbert Read

#6. The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

Hannah Arendt

#7. Ronan tightened his grip before leaning over and whispering, "Do you have any idea how much I want you?

Sara Humphreys

#8. The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

R.C. Sproul

#9. I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

Sissy Spacek

#10. I am grateful for the lessons I learned from my parents' sacrifices. They often had trouble making ends meet, so we moved for them to find work. I remember my mom would sometimes take on second jobs, like ironing, just so we could buy groceries.

Rick Scott

#11. The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a 'dualistic' view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#12. For the Reformation is nothing other than Augustianianism come to its rights: the turning away from all that is human to rest on God alone for salvation.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

#13. The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

George Sarton

#14. One heroic act doesn't make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Marie Lu

#15. The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.

Charles Bukowski

#16. A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

Mo Yan

#17. The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence of the worst, the true asafoetida of the human spirit, is not found in the Iron Maiden or the whetted edge; Elemental Ugliness is found in the faces of the crowd.

Thomas Harris

#18. D/s sessions can unsettle submissives, especially new ones. When you trust someone to care for you - and they do well for you - then a bond develops. It's easy to confuse that tie with other feelings.

Cherise Sinclair

#19. We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least as careful of ourselves?

William George Jordan

#20. There we go, that word again: faith. Pajo fuckin loves it. I fuckin hate it. I hate it cos there's no way o trickin yerself into it, no amount o thinkin about it can get yeh there - yeh have it or yeh don't. And I don't.

Trevor Byrne

#21. I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

#22. What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.

Sayo Masuda

#23. Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Advice for a human.
81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.
82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Matt Haig

#25. Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

Bertrand Russell

#26. Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. 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

#28. 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. 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

#30. 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

#31. The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

Alfred Kazin

#32. 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

#33. I wonder if to be human is to know that we can't ever banish pain and ugliness from the world, only learn from it and create something beautiful and good out of it ...

Heather Lende