You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me. — Valeria Lukyanova Copy Share Image
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. — Edward Hall Copy Share Image
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks. — Theodore Hall Copy Share Image
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are good reasons for revulsion and fear. But revulsion and fear impair judgment. Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“My revulsion kicked in. Sexual domination, sure. Dishes, housework, even cooking for a man, all these for some weird reason repulsed me.” — Cari Silverwood Copy Share Image
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“My revulsion turned to grief that my own people could give the hate stare, could shrivel men’s souls, could deprive humans of… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“The rabid ferocity of his reaction had confirmed Mother’s warnings, but I didn’t yet comprehend the depth of the revulsion that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“What is believed in one man's time, is despised in another man's day. To be sure, there will even be revulsion in… — Pat O'Shea Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We talked about how easy it was to make the mistake of anthropomorphizing animals, and projecting our own feelings and perceptions on… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“A mixture of feelings- love, distaste, revulsion, pity- rose in my throat…There was an eternity to that moment, that see-sawing split- second… — Liz Jensen Copy Share Image
“It is time, therefore, that you should apply for aid to such helpful Spirits. But will you have the strength of mind,… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“The men digging in on both sides of me cursed the stench and the mud. I began moving the heavy, sticky clay… — Eugene B. Sledge Copy Share Image
“She merely wiped the floor with paper towels and said nothing, brushing her free hand against my shoulder blade—my shoulder blade!—as she… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.” — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.” — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image