Loathsome Quotes

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If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world. — Henry Arthur Jones
So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God. — Charles Caleb Colton
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! — Albert Einstein
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible,… — Robert Winston
In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great. — Oscar Levant
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist. — Thomas Pynchon
When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome… — Oscar Wilde
To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable… — David Foster Wallace
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd. — Soren Kierkegaard
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and… — Honore de Balzac
Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts â€“ and… — Jasper Fforde
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished… — Albert Einstein
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or… — Terry Goodkind
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. — William Shakespeare
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it — Albert Camus
Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. So alone that anyone, anything no matter… — Suzanne Collins
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,… — Albert Camus
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but… — Leo Tolstoy

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