somehow touching yet repulsive

“both touching and somehow repulsive.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Your slave and enemy, D.Karamazov”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

— Lord Kelvin

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

— Amy Vanderbilt

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

— Ishaan Khatter

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

— Frans de Waal

“Approach what you find repulsive, help the ones you think you cannot help, and go places that scare you. ”

— Machik Labdron

“Alice started to understand why people found her repulsive. In stories, anyone who didn't look quite right, who wasn't a perfect human being, was…

— Georgia Byng

The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

— Eleanor Antin

“Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.”

— Gail Carriger

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF…

— Alan Moore

“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.”

— Roxane Gay

“Yet there must be something repulsive about her somewhere, something more repelling than just a pair of eyes that couldn't see, for she'd been…

— Beverly Butler

Repulsive, humiliating advice usually comes from bad intentions.

— Anonymous

“Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time…

— Amélie Nothomb