Approach what you find repulsive, help the ones you think…

“Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached to, let it go.…

— Phadhampa Sangye

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

“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

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

“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

“both touching and somehow repulsive.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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