Disgust Quotes
207 Disgust quotes by 176 unique authors
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or…
— William Hazlitt
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Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your…
— Patrick Süskind
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The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
— John Cage
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This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and…
— Lewis Carroll
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works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift…
— Rebecca West
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I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust.…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust…
— Albert Camus
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A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
— Margaret Atwood
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Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words…
— Cassandra Clare
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- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had…
— Zadie Smith
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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact…
— Aleister Crowley
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust…
— Samuel Beckett
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others…
— Rachilde
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Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go,…
— James Patterson
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Disgust is intuitive microbiology
— Steven Pinker
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Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the…
— William Goldman
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You both sicken me. (Markus) It’s what I live for…Father. Your eternal disgust succors me like mother’s milk. (Fang)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type…
— Michael Pollan
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Captain Phelan,” Cam asked, choosing his words with care. “Have you come to ask for our consent to marry Beatrix?” Christopher shook his head. “If…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing…
— Kristin Cashore
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts.…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Who Wrote These Disgust Quotes
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