Repulsive Quotes

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I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. — David Bowie
The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at… — Nicolas Cage
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into… — Anton Chekhov
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride… — Anthony of Padua
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance,… — Albert Camus
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely… — Charles Dickens
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick. — Hippocrates
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not imagine that mathematics is harsh and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealisation of common sense. — Lord Kelvin
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,… — William James
I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward… — Heinrich Heine
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old… — D. H. Lawrence
Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very… — Susanna Moodie
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form. — Douglas Wilson
Heidi [Montag]'s a far more talented artist. Personally, I think Lady Gaga is repulsive and classless. — Spencer Pratt
This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial… — Karl Marx
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass… — Celia Thaxter
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran

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