Disgust Quotes

207 Disgust quotes by 176 unique authors

One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience… — Alexander Hamilton
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery… — John Ruskin
I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11. But after… — Zacarias Moussaoui
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of… — Laurence Olivier
Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I… — Jeremy Piven
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,… — Joseph Conrad
At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith… — Lionel Trilling
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing… — Unknown Author
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races… — Abraham Lincoln
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… — John Burroughs
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much… — Stephen King
I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything… — Axl Rose
Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust. — Herbert Hoover
After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning… — Thomas A. Edison
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only… — Judith Levine
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,'… — Unknown Author
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust… — Michael Swanwick

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