Quotes About Being Ugly

#1. The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an oportunity for something better than I ever imagined.
The truth is I'm sorry.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

E. M. Forster

#3. A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.

Daniel Cudmore

#5. One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

Kid Rock

#6. It can't be pretty without being ugly first.

Kambri Crews

#7. Aside from that, however, Rigg didn't mind being ugly. In fact, she liked herself and just pretended that she didn't when she was around other women. For there was nothing so criminal as a woman liking herself.

Ash Gray

#8. Being pretty isn't everything but sometimes being ugly is.

Jennifer Brown

#9. Kelsea saw now that there was something far worse than being ugly: being ugly and thinking you were beautiful.

Erika Johansen

#10. Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

Leonard Cohen

#11. Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don't need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

Kristen Stewart

#12. I don't mind [being ugly], do you?

George Eliot

#13. I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

Chris Lilley

#14. Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

#15. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.

Wm. Paul Young

#16. Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

Russell Lynes

#17. In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.

Bertrand Barere

#18. It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.

Brett Lee

#19. The gift of God being wielded by the mind of flesh is such an ugly thing.

Larry Huntsperger

#20. The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Timothy West

#21. People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

Richard Dawkins

#22. Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.

Zana Briski

#23. How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#24. It's sort of nice in more general terms to see that computational science, computational biology is being recognized. It's become a very large field, and it's always in some ways been the poor sister, or the ugly sister, to experimental biology.

Michael Levitt

#25. I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' or 'This is an Ugly Casanova song.' The people who were open to it not being a Modest Mouse record liked it.

Isaac Brock

#26. The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

Geoffrey Miller

#27. I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

Kelly Osbourne

#28. Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

Trevor Rabin

#29. Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation to man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

E.F. Schumacher

#30. You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

Diablo Cody

#31. I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, I'm beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I'm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I'm beautiful because I say I am. I've earned it, and I'm gonna be it.

Margaret Cho

#32. The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Baz Luhrmann

#33. The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

Thomas Jefferson

#34. Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

James Alan Gardner

#35. Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

Piet Mondrian

#36. I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.

Bonnie McFarlane

#37. Being on a galloping camel bears several resemblances to energetic sex with an enormously strong and very ugly woman.

Mark Lawrence

#38. Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

Suzy Kassem

#39. New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch.

Bill Maher

#40. you aren't particularly good at positive self-talk, then it's time to practice and change your words. Don't talk about being overweight, ugly or dumb...because your children are listening and learning. They also need

Katrina Kahler

#41. [Toby] reflected that being cruel sometimes makes you rich and powerful, but it always makes you ugly.

Timothee De Fombelle

#42. But I think deep down inside I always knew that being genuinely ugly (not just "unattractive" as Asshole had called it) would slow me down.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#43. Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

Margaret Cho

#44. A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

Carlos Castaneda

#45. The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.

Vikas Swarup

#46. Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

Kelis

#47. What if I should look ugly without being bad - look ugly myself because I am making ugly things beautiful? - What then?

George MacDonald

#48. What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.

Criss Jami

#49. Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.

Melina Marchetta

#50. Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

Joe Frazier

#51. At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

Pauline Kael

#52. Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all

Ramakrishna

#53. Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#54. I came from a small town in Pennsylvania - where 'style' was whatever was new at the Gap. Being on 'Ugly Betty' at such a crucial time in my life sparked my love for the industry.

Mark Indelicato

#55. Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

Daniel Tosh

#56. I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Bradford Cox

#57. Being tough means looking straight at something ugly, and saying, "That's ugly; I'll have to find a way to deal with it." And doing so.

Robert B. Parker

#58. When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

Lucy Grealy

#59. They had well-fed faces and laughter that was made cruel by its context the way a gem could be made ugly by being set in tin.

George R R Martin

#60. How ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.

Kate Morton

#61. She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and yet her dreams still seem far from being realised.

Hussain S. Zaidi

#62. People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

Zora Neale Hurston

#63. I tell you of my loss, child, so you will listen, slowly, and know that in life every emotion is fated to rear itself within your being. Don't judge it proper or ugly. It's simply there and yours.

Thanhha Lai

#64. I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating ...

Helen Mirren

#65. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Oscar Wilde

#66. It is quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away util they simply no longer matter. -pg. 114.

Wm. Paul Young

#67. It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

Ryan Phillippe

#68. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Sylvia Plath

#69. They aren't ugly." I bit my lip, trying to find the right words. "more like beautiful things that have had the misfortune of being broken.

Danielle L. Jensen

#70. Then, finally, we were ready to charge in and save Sadie, and she rides up in a limousine driven by an ugly dwarf in a swimsuit, and she accuses us of being late.
So when she told us the dwarf was driving us to Russia, I was like, "Whatever." And I got into the car.

Rick Riordan

#71. Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ruth Reichl

#72. Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it.

Gregoire Delacourt

#73. 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

#74. There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossover behaviors.

Timothy Simons

#75. I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year?

Janeane Garofalo

#76. No one ever complained about a fat brain. No one ever accused their brain of being too short or too tall, too wide or too narrow. Or ugly. It either worked or it didn't, and mine worked just fine.

Lissa Price

#77. What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

Jess C. Scott

#78. And for the people who promote drones as the answer to everything, there is a danger from being distanced from the reality of the ugly mess of war.

Gavin Hood

#79. When I was a little girl everyone made fun of me and calling me awful names.Also saying i'm ugly and now i'm starting to believe it,because I can't seem to find a man that wants me so I go around the internet with a friends spreading false dating rumors on them being with me.

Genevieve Cortese

#80. Design is expected to provide something "new" or "beautiful" or "special". When we look at the things around us with such a mindset, those things outside "design" are viewed as being "normal" or "ugly" in contrast.

Naoto Fukasawa

#81. I see myself beneath her.
Being taken and made love to.
I feel her.
I know her.
Taste her champagne mouth.
Ignore the ugly teeth.
Just shut my eyes and taste her.

Markus Zusak

#82. I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Scott Turow

#83. There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#84. I'm noticing a lot of the big bloggers who've posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers' sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it's a question of being appropriate for the audience.

Jen Lancaster

#85. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

Peter S. Beagle

#86. The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

Tony Kushner

#87. A tourist is an ugly human being

Jamaica Kincaid

#88. I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

Chris Martin

#89. I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

Bernie Sanders

#90. 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

#91. The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home.

Paul Leautaud

#92. There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words 'skinny' or 'fat' under the definitions of 'beautiful' and 'ugly'. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.

Maddy Malhotra

#93. My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

Charles Bukowski

#94. I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.

Sara Novic

#95. There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.

Gwendoline Christie

#96. you will never get rich if you spend your time complaining about money and being angry or jealous of those with money. You will never get a loving partner if you complain you're fat, stupid and ugly.

Genevieve Davis

#97. I think of myself as being perfectly photoshopped. If I started scraping at the layers of what I'm suppressing - what I've put a pretty picture over - things would start looking pretty ugly.

Tarryn Fisher