It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“And if the person looking into someone's eyes has a dark soul, he will see only his own ugliness.” — Paolo Coelho Copy Share Image
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness. — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a fragile and vulnerable quality, and moreover one that is difficult to achieve; ugliness, by contrast, is unbreakable and invulnerable,… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Trump provides a more direct and arrogant persona that produces the ugliness of a society ruled entirely by finance capital and savage… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing,… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics,… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ah, God, what an ugly city Ilium is! 'Ah, God,' says Bokonon, 'what an ugly city every city is!' Sleet was falling… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Beauty and ugliness are only possible in the light. Common sense also survives in the dark. So do crassness, ignorance, dumbness!... — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
No cream in the world can hide the ugliness of bad character, and no blemish can obscure the beauty of good character. — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by. — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“Or maybe the ugliness is in us. That's just the way we are. Underneath the pretense of civilization.” — Bethany Griffin Copy Share Image
If you have a choice between ugly or fat; You can turn lights out on ugly, but you can always feel the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“...beauty was found beyond the surface. It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
They say you deserve to be treated better, but when they get the chance they treat you no better. — Livefree2dream44 Copy Share Image
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image