Ugliness Quotes · Page 8

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

— Susan Sontag

“We must be careful not to recite ugliness in our hearts because it will eventually find its way out.”

— Alisa Hope Wagner

“There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe.”

— Mercedes Lackey

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

— Matthew Modine

I'm not saying you're ugly, I'm just saying you're about 8 beers away from being my type.

— Anonymous

This world never stop to amaze me ,we can always find beauty among the ugliness and kindness in the most unexpected places…

— Laylablack

I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

— Gerard Way

“The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?”

— Mary Balogh

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God!…

— Imelda Marcos

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is…

— Desmond Tutu

An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over…

— Michio Kushi

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and…

— George Orwell

When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue…

— Joseph Brodsky

The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face…

— Larry Crabb

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good,…

— Goldie Hawn

“Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called…

— Michael Quinion

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in…

— Christopher Hitchens

To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance…

— Carrie Brownstein

As long as people continue to embrace racism, ignore racism, make excuses for racism, and try to hide racism, we will forever…

— Stephanie Lahart

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the…

— John W. Gardner

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering…

— George Eliot

I AM UGLY and that's a fact. guys don't add me on facebook and like my pictures, they don't ask for my…

— Anonymous

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

— Laozi

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more…

— Edna Ferber

People say laughter is the best medicine. Your face must be curing the world.

— Hussein Nishah

Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

— Frederick Lenz

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

— Angus Wilson

Onions think that they are ugly because you cry after you get them naked.

— Anonymous

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

— Anatole France

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

— Otto Dix

That awkward moment when your friend tagged you and you are looking bad in that photo.

— Anonymous

“The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”

— Issac Marion

Excuse me, sir. I hope my horrible ugliness won't be a distraction to you.

— Ramandeep Singh

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.”

— Lisa Samson

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

— August Strindberg

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

— Jean Genet

“Forgiveness removes all the ugliness of unforgiveness you’re your heart.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“He wasn't ugly, but if he picked a flower, I was fairly certain it would die in his hand.”

— Ruta Sepetys