Quotes About Feeling Ugly

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady ... I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others?

Sylvia Plath

#5. Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.

Gustave Flaubert

#6. I don't think people in Hawaii like negative ads, whether it's done by an independent group or whether it's done by the campaign itself.

Colleen Hanabusa

#7. The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.

Soheir Khashoggi

#8. Ugly is very popular this year ... I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

Andy Rooney

#9. That one was beautiful, though." She flushes. "Thank you. I started taking classes a month ago. I like them, but I dropped out because all the teacher wanted me to paint were ugly, soulless little watercolor landscapes. No feeling! No passion!

Sara Wolf

#10. He kept telling me his affair was over, but I kept catching him in lies. He wouldn't shake this woman, and I simply could not trust him anymore.

Brandi Glanville

#11. While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

Edmund White

#12. Poet's Work
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoffs
from this
condensery

Lorine Niedecker

#13. The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

Iman

#14. For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did that word for word and that worked pretty well. Now, I do almost all of my writing on stage and then record and listen for any new things and then I write those down.

Gary Gulman

#15. I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.

Ana Ortiz

#16. Love cannot stifle nor can it dictate. Either of those circumstances will turn a tender feeling into something ugly (Adam Ashworth).

Cynthia Wicklund

#17. If we are always pushing away from feelings that we condemn as wrong, painful, or ugly, we are also pushing away from the very energy that can bring us incredible joy and ecstasy.

Shaeri Richards

#18. We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

Aristotle.

#19. What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist ... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own ... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.

Jim Rowe

#20. Evie didn't mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

Libba Bray

#21. It was the cheapest kind of rebuke, to call a woman ugly, but one to which small boys and grown men seemed equally quick to stoop when feeling challenged.

Helen Simonson

#22. When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

Vladislav Tamarov

#23. One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he was going, he'd stop dead in his tracks.

Iain Sinclair

#24. stage-managing reality programming to extract a desired emotional response from viewers, the subjects of these series

Michael Essany

#25. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

Thom Yorke

#26. The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done.
( ... and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul)

Asma Naqi

#27. Dad said that the guy who can play guitar is going to be the life of the party. He's confusing life with death.

David Sedaris

#28. Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].

Dada Bhagwan

#29. I want to love and be loved ... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

Daniel Mainwaring

#30. I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.

Anthony Carmona

#31. I'm back, Beatrice. I'm back for you, and I'm not going anywhere. You're not a girl anymore, so run home for now but know that I'll see you again tomorrow. And I'm not leaving you again.

Elizabeth Hunter

#32. I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

Nicollette Sheridan

#33. Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Shinichi Suzuki

#34. 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

#35. Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.
Just like I am now.

Holly Smale