Revulsion Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain. — Seth Klarman
No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in… — Billy Graham
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes… — Gunter Grass
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just… — Jonathan Haidt
What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as… — Charles P. Kindleberger
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over… — John Rabe
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it… — Jennifer Haigh
The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make… — Yayoi Kusama
The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are looking for someone… — Josh Sugarmann
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence… — Terence McKenna
To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings we… — Theodore Isaac Rubin
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. — Dario Argento
Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as… — Adam Hochschild
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the… — Hunter S. Thompson
My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was… — Daniel Ellsberg
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to… — Eric Hoffer
The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When… — Thorstein Veblen

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