Quotes About Ugliness

#1. Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.

Marcelo Gleiser

#2. Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Matthew Modine

#3. Life is beautiful. It's even more beautiful when you learn to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness and in and around you.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

#5. Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.

Is and is not produce one another.
The difficult is born in the easy,
long is defined by short, the high by the low.

Sam Hamill

#6. A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Stephen King

#7. 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

#8. Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Daniel Goleman

#9. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

Ashutosh Gupta

#10. Find a bigger enemy than just a rival brand. It can be bad design. It can be time. It can be pollution. It can be ugliness. It can be bad service. It can be landfill. It can be complexity. But pick your enemy well. It will drive you forward.

David Hieatt

#11. he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. In

Hans Christian Andersen

#12. When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

John Lennon

#13. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

#14. 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

#15. Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

Honore De Balzac

#16. Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within.

Soman Chainani

#17. I live in a small town, a town without much serious crime, but I'll tell you there are days when I see enough mean-spirited ugliness to ruin my lunch.

Toni Dwiggins

#18. The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

Christine De Pizan

#20. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

Mary Balogh

#22. Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?

Lewis Foreman Day

#23. We must be careful not to recite ugliness in our hearts because it will eventually find its way out.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#24. 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

#25. you say you often feel this madness. what do you do when it comes upon you?
I write poetry.
is poetry madness?
non-poetry is madness.
what is madness?
madness is ugliness.
what is ugly?
to each man, something different.

Charles Bukowski

#26. 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

#27. For true beauty - beauty, as it were, with a capital B - is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.

Rick Yancey

#28. When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. - Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching

Scott Westerfeld

#29. 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

#30. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.

William S. Burroughs

#31. His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly good for him, he might have brought action against his countenance for libel, and have recovered heavy damages.

Charles Dickens

#32. Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

Frederick Lenz

#33. That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

Fay Wray

#34. The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

James Howard Kunstler

#35. It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Thornton Wilder

#36. Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.

Aussiescribbler

#37. 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

#38. Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Edmund Burke

#39. I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

J.D. Salinger

#40. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#41. People wrongly believe the ugliness won't touch them if they stay silent and do nothing. But by doing that, the ugliness will eventually consume them

Felicia Denise

#42. If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals
then what wasn't?

Annie Dillard

#43. No matter what ugliness and destruction you may witness around you, I want you always to believe that the tiniest glimpse of beauty here and there is a reflection of the gods' abode.

Vaddey Ratner

#44. What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

Eugene Delacroix

#45. Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

Jean Toomer

#46. Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

Neal Stephenson

#47. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

Charlie Brooker

#48. One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it will find you." Taty

Robert Jackson Bennett

#49. Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#50. That is a rare gift, Alexyin, for another person to see every ugliness in you and still be able to find that part of you that they can love, that can love them back.

Kirby Crow

#51. I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.

Rose McGowan

#52. Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#53. No one who is good can ever be ugly.

Roald Dahl

#54. It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

Laozi

#55. 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

#56. I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.

Chris Columbus

#57. If we focus just on what's ugly and bad, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and eventually into our lives ...

Jose N. Harris

#58. Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

James L. Farmer Jr.

#59. Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic.

Henry James

#60. If we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives

Wayne W. Dyer

#61. We need people, Juliet, to show us our selfishness, to extract the ugliness that reveals itself in our hearts.

Rene Gutteridge

#62. All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

Edith Sitwell

#63. Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.
And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Lisa Kleypas

#64. People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

Thomas Kincade

#65. Find calmness in storms. Find beauty in ugliness. Find peace in the midst of war. Now expand it. Only people with a higher consciousness can do this. It will make the world a better place for mankind.

Debasish Mridha

#66. Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

Kate Morton

#67. Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.

Debasish Mridha

#68. Isn't that the way God works? She'd thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#69. The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#70. It was better to see clearly. Even the ugliness of the world had its place. Eventually,

T. Frohock

#71. Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. Which will be soon, and then the dark, and then be done with this ugliness ...

William Styron

#73. Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

Rajneesh

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

Hunter S. Thompson

#75. In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world.

Orna Ross

#76. But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Jakob Dylan

#77. Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

Kahlil Gibran

#78. Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

J. Oswald Sanders

#79. We can spot the people's ugliness sometimes even-though they tried to speak decent

Jem

#80. The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.

Larry Crabb

#81. [Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ...

William Morris

#82. Until woman as she is can drive this plastic spectre out of her own and her man's imagination she will continue to apologize and disguise herself, while accepting her male's pot-belly, wattles, bad breath, farting, stubble, baldness and other ugliness without complaint.

Germaine Greer

#83. I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

Karl Lagerfeld

#84. There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.

Martin Puryear

#85. Love finds beauty in the midst of ugliness and makes the journey of life worthwhile.

Debasish Mridha

#86. It's what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope!

Stanislaw Lem

#87. 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

#88. Beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Jean Genet

#89. I have no religion,' says Borneau, 'but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.' Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?

Jules Renard

#90. If you can't find happiness in the ugliness, you're not going to find it in the beauty, either.

Chip Gaines

#91. Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called the anti-beauty quark. Could it be that ugly people now have something tangible to blame?

Michael Quinion

#92. She could see the worst parts of him, in the ugliness of his face and the degenerate use of her body. He showed her every dirty, unkind desire and God help her, she never told him no.

Skye Warren

#93. Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [ ... ] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities.

Umberto Eco

#94. There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Jane Jacobs

#95. Sometimes a beautiful woman had to do nothing more than smile to make you forget about any ugliness.

Bart Hopkins

#96. The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

Charles Baudelaire

#97. Beauty is a creature which lives everywhere: Under the ocean, above the clouds, even in the remote deserts! Wherever the ugliness may be on this universe, beauty will also be there giving hope to our lives!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#98. Christianity was beauty created by controlling a million monsters of ugliness ... modern art and science practically mean having the million monsters and being unable to control them ...

G.K. Chesterton

#99. It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

Ansel Adams

#100. Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.

Leo Buscaglia