Top 100 Quotes About Ugliness
#1. An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.
Michio Kushi
#2. We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
Charlie Pierce
#3. I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.
Leo McCarey
#4. The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
Malcolm McLaren
#5. Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one's eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.
Robert Leckie
#6. Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.
Debasish Mridha
#7. The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
Herman Melville
#8. I think that facing your own ugliness ... and trying to change yourself
turning your scars into strengths ... is very strong and beautiful.
Minari Endou
#9. Turn away from the ugliness and reunite with beauty. You have to want the beauty of life really bad, and you have to take action and look for it. You have to become a beauty seeker.
Bryant McGill
#10. If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space.
Debasish Mridha
#11. One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Paul did not like Mrs. Pipchin, but he would sit in his arm-chair and look at her. Her ugliness seemed to fascinate him.
Charles Dickens
#13. You protect us all from ugliness. I wanted you to have something beautiful,
Jon Kiln
#14. Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.
Amin Maalouf
#15. We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.
Alain De Botton
#16. The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#17. Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you enter there, your face and your heart is forever sealed with the devilish ugliness of the violence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. But I see now that our future lies not in building beautiful havens from the ugliness in society, but in building a different kind of society. He
J.P. Delaney
#19. Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within us still knows right from wrong. Instead of connecting with ugliness; connect with beauty. Take great care with what you put into both your mind and body - your health and well-being are at a tremendous risk.
Bryant McGill
#20. Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.
Kathryn Davis
#21. it was the ugliness of character, which is as attractive as beauty. His
Arthur Conan Doyle
#22. The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.
Jules Breton
#23. 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
#24. It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant.
Shirley Jackson
#25. Faith in what?" "That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.
Jim Butcher
#26. I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.
Jewel
#27. I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
Renee Vivien
#28. 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
#29. Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.
Janet Fitch
#30. Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
Robert Genn
#33. Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.
Ezra Taft Benson
#34. Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences.
Bryant McGill
#35. Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting is like music and it has to separate from everyday reality.
Irving Stone
#36. I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.
Isaac Marion
#37. Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.
William Steig
#38. Beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.
Ian McEwan
#39. Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#41. We are mere humans, Veronica. We are destined to prefer beauty to ugliness." His
Deanna Raybourn
#42. In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
George Bernard Shaw
#43. Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.
Peter Bogdanovich
#44. What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt.
Camille Paglia
#45. Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.
Roger Scruton
#46. Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.
Rebecca Wells
#47. No one has called any of my pictures obscene ever but I have been constantly blamed for an even greater sin - the ugliness.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
#48. Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Oriana Fallaci
#49. It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your being there. You can spend all day jerking off as long as you describe it well.
Richard Hell
#50. How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?
Gustave Flaubert
#51. Ah, he would take her beyond
beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.
Edith Wharton
#52. I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black.
Karen Marie Moning
#53. Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?
Debasish Mridha
#54. The beast is dry and mottled, shedding skin
as minutes drop from life, a wristy piece
of dogged ugliness, its labors meant
to carve from language beauty, that beauty which
lifts free of flesh to find itself in print
John Updike
#55. Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.
Pamela Clare
#56. Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N.K. Jemisin
#57. I'm saying that sometimes we don't want to see the ugliness in others because it means seeing what's ugly in ourselves.
Brian F. Walker
#58. America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Goldwin Smith
#59. The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
Massimo Vignelli
#60. Levana knew a great deal about beauty, just as she knew a great deal about ugliness.
Marissa Meyer
#61. Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell
#62. Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
Desmond Tutu
#63. He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.
Joyce Carol Oates
#64. Beauty is a fragile and vulnerable quality, and moreover one that is difficult to achieve; ugliness, by contrast, is unbreakable and invulnerable, and very easy to achieve.
Roger Kimball
#65. He's light and dark, forgiveness and vengeance, beauty and ugliness. He's all those things. My beautiful savage.
Nina G. Jones
#66. One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
Coco Chanel
#67. Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.
Philip Mallory Conley
#69. Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.
Helen McCarthy
#70. Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.
Melissa Marr
#71. You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.
Michelle Tea
#72. If we don't use ugly words, we won't have any ugliness
Ayn Rand
#73. Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
Brent Weeks
#75. The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,
David Brooks
#76. The sound of her voice was so pretty, it almost disguised the ugliness of her words.
Grace Burrowes
#77. I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
Henry Miller
#78. The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.
P. J. O'Rourke
#79. We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.
Elie Wiesel
#80. 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
#81. Two years is the time it takes to perceive at one glance, a glance as sure as instinct, the ugliness that can come over a face, even one that was delicious in its day. For
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#82. The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
Thomas Hardy
#83. I reread this letter several times. I could scarcely deny its authorship or its ugliness. All I could plead was that I had been its author then, but was not its author now. Indeed, I didn't recognise that part of myself from which the letter came. But perhaps this was simply further self-deception.
Julian Barnes
#85. Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness -Gin Ichimaru
Tite Kubo
#86. Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#87. For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
Anatole France
#88. 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
#89. I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.
Nicole Krauss
#90. The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.
Michelle Franklin
#91. Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Don't be affraid to break, Maggie. Stop holding on to the ugliness just to stay whole.
Lexi Ryan
#93. The epic love I've always wanted was with me all along, and it's nothing like what I imagined. It's better, because it's real. It's not perfect or pretty. It's full of mistakes and sacrifices, and sometimes even ugliness.
L. H. Cosway
#94. Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
H.L. Mencken
#95. 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
#96. Self-attachment is the first sign of madness, but it is because man is attached to himself that he accepts error as truth, lies as reality, violence and ugliness as beauty and justice.
Michel Foucault
#97. And given how much of the evil and ugliness of the present world can be traced to money, can you imagine what the world will be like when money has been transformed?
Charles Eisenstein
#99. Where there is reflection, there is either double beauty or double ugliness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life
Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.
Diana Gabaldon
