Quotes About Being Despised

#1. My life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

Dorothy Allison

#2. Dangers by being despised grow great.

Edmund Burke

#3. The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

Epicurus

#4. The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

Henry Walter Bates

#5. This man looked like curiosity would look if it had a human face.

Jenny Doe

#6. Seth looks positively delicious in a black three piece suit, but personally, I think it'll look better on the floor somewhere- maybe thrown over the seats in the car.

Skyla Madi

#7. This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think.
Fuck off, world- what the hell is normal anyway?

Elizabeth Haynes

#8. Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. [T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.

Robin Briggs

#10. It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species ... even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

Bertrand Russell

#11. None of us wanted to look like that, ever. For a moment, even though we knew what was being done to her, we despised her. Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby. We meant it, which is the bad part. I used to think well of myself. I didn't then.

Margaret Atwood

#12. By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

Glenn Beck

#13. Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#14. Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.

Gerard Butler

#15. It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped like a goddess, a worship she both relished and despised.

Alan Lightman

#16. Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Charles Baudelaire

#17. Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

Ann Brashares

#18. Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

Ted Cruz

#20. after all, no longer a child and despised being treated as such. Besides, she of all people had nothing at all to fear from the Djinn. But of course, her

J. Kent Holloway

#21. I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.

Walker Evans

#22. For those of us with BPD, entering into a shared experience means passing through the ring of fire that leaves us feeling even more burned - and in this case branded with a label no one would ever choose to wear.

Kiera Van Gelder

#23. Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Richard Bach

#24. But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so widely despised, so unloved, killed with every chance we get, they are so pervasive, so seemingly invincible.

Carol Vorvain

#25. One source of the sublime is infinity.

Edmund Burke

#26. Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised ...

Niccolo Machiavelli

#27. But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would appear.

Saul Bellow

#28. There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

Ted Hughes

#29. Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

Karl Malone

#30. Did he know that she was so dissatisfied with herself that she was always pretending to be different? Probably he did, and despised her for it. More than anyone she knew, Joe Willard was always, fearlessly, himself.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#31. People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Desmond Tutu