Ugliness Quotes · Page 10

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

— Ian Mcewan

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

— Karen Traviss

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

— Theodore Dalrymple

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

— Gregory Maguire

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

— John D. MacDonald

They say you deserve to be treated better, but when they get the chance they treat you no better.

— Livefree2dream44

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for…

— Chris Columbus

Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger…

— Nicole Krauss

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make…

— Renzo Piano

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and…

— Camille Paglia

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make…

— Anonymous

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when…

— Plotinus

“If we focus just on what's ugly and bad, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and…

— José N. Harris

“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual…

— Edith Schaeffer

“The exposition of Atrocious Torture Instruments could not fail to appeal to a connoisseur of the worst in mankind. But the essence…

— Thomas Harris

Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with…

— B. C. Forbes

Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments.…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“the extreme ugliness of her appearance, the Savage frequently goes to see her and appears to be much attached to her -…

— Aldous Huxley

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is…

— Wendell Berry

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience…

— Azar Nafisi

“...beauty was found beyond the surface. It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be…

— Ted Dekker

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

— Michel de Montaigne

You are either as beautiful or as ugly as you believe you are. You define your beauty. That's not a power anyone…

— Anonymous

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

— Sarah McLachlan

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

— Max Ernst

“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there…

— Lao Tzu

“And if the person looking into someone's eyes has a dark soul, he will see only his own ugliness.”

— Paolo Coelho

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

— Elie Wiesel

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

— Paola Antonelli

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

— Jean Lorrain

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

— Amy Harmon

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every…

— Anonymous

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

— Pete Buttigieg

Beauty and ugliness are only possible in the light. Common sense also survives in the dark. So do crassness, ignorance, dumbness!...

— Mariana Fulger

No cream in the world can hide the ugliness of bad character, and no blemish can obscure the beauty of good character.

— Omar Suleiman

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to…

— Rem Koolhaas