Top 55 Unpleasant Things Quotes
#1. It's not easy to kill; it's not supposed to be. If it is, then there's something wrong with you. But sometimes good people have to do unpleasant things just so we can come home at night to our kids.
Skip Coryell
#2. Procedures. Like "incident," this is another word that covers a broad range of unpleasant things.
Lauren DeStefano
#3. She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.
Patrick White
#4. Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines.
Andrus Kivirahk
#5. Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.
Edouard Rene De Laboulaye
#6. People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
Meredith Whitney
#7. I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
Banana Yoshimoto
#9. Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
#10. So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.
John O'Hara
#11. poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
Lewis Carroll
#12. Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things.
Gladys Mitchell
#13. Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
Bertrand Russell
#14. The history of the world is, sadly, not a pretty poem. It offers little variety, and it is nearly always the unpleasant things that are repeated, over and over again.
E.H. Gombrich
#15. The truth only comes if you are willing to face some really unpleasant things about yourself.
Bryant McGill
#16. It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life ... But I'm beginning to consider it ...
Charles M. Schulz
#17. Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
Chuck Palahniuk
#18. We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.
Heinz Fischer
#19. In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.
Girdhar Joshi
#20. Talking about unpleasant things during a meal is not good for digestion, not good for health.
Betty Jamie Chung
#21. There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#22. In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.
Romola Garai
#23. The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life
the life God is sending one day by day.
C.S. Lewis
#24. The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.
David Brenner
#26. ... one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there ... . So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who had to put up with that, so many ... .
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#28. Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.
Barbara Woodhouse
#29. To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#30. Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#31. Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action
Brendan Brazier
#33. Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
Barney Frank
#34. I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.
Peter Straub
#35. I don't usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.
Kamijo Yuuji
#36. Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
Patrick Rothfuss
#37. Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don't want to go to work, we don't want to do our chores, and we don't want to make unpleasant decisions, but we do all those things because we're aware of the consequences which will follow if we don't.
Ilona Andrews
#39. Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
Winston Churchill
#40. In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.
Joseph Brodsky
#41. There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said
things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that
he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
Marcel Proust
#42. Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you
these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#43. Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.
Cassandra Clare
#44. There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.
Madeleine L'Engle
#45. One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
H.L. Mencken
#46. We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C.S. Lewis
#47. Nasty Men Make Nice Things; Unpleasant People Think Important Thoughts is, after all, the headline on almost every chapter in cultural history
Adam Gopnik
#48. He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience.
Patrick Rothfuss
#49. Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.
Multatuli
#50. Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.
Mark Kurlansky
#51. I set fire to his bed one night while he was in it. I'd be obliged if you wouldn't mention that, though, as they never found out who did it, but the police got involved and things were rather unpleasant at school for a while.
Clara Benson
#52. I didn't mean that I'm a nonpareil now. But I'm different, yes. I've found out that I can do quite difficult things if I keep trying very hard, and at least I've discovered that if I don't keep myself occupied I'm unhappy and unpleasant.
Madeleine Brent
#53. Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
Epictetus
#54. The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#55. All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
