The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.” — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“He has the look of someone whose soul got up and walked away in disgust a long time ago.” — Jess Kidd Copy Share Image
I think we need to stop looking at the file-sharing community with disgust and instead ask ourselves what we can learn from… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.” — patrick suskind Copy Share Image
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
While most kids turned their heads in disgust as a plateful of broccoli landed before them, I ate what I was given.… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I thought you loved your husband.” She blows air through her nose. The action reminds me of an agitated horse. Her eyes… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“It wasn't disgust she felt for Karou, not anymore; it was indignation. Incredulity. A man like Akiva crosses worlds to find you,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am grabbed by the scruff of the neck and pitched clean out of the room. It seems that this sudden aversion… — Natsume Soseki Copy Share Image
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“It was the blue-tinged taste of a regret so deep you could never plumb its depths. It was the victory at Rajal… — Richard K Morgan Copy Share Image
There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
…I don’t wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk. — Erlend Loe Copy Share Image
Girls now a days disgust me, it's like being unfaithful and sneaky is the right thing to do I really don't understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If disgust for the world conferred sanctity of itself, I fail to see how I could avoid canonization.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Brief worldly pleasure is followed by pain and disgust. If only people would believe it rather than experience it.” — Johann Martin Boltzius Copy Share Image
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
“in my afterword, which discusses the ugliest of all ugly feelings: disgust. As” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
