Ugliness Quotes

296 quotes by 253 authors

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if… — Wendell Berry
The job of art is to chase ugliness away. — Bono
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. — Joseph Brodsky
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility. — Max Ernst
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into… — Robert D. Brinsmead
Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and… — Rajneesh
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents… — George Bernard Shaw
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever… — Eckhart Tolle
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not that you cultivate… — Rajneesh
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. — Hubert H. Humphrey
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual… — Massimo Vignelli
Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that attachment is not… — Rajneesh
Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all. — Johnny Depp
It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything… — Louise Wilson
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to… — Ansel Adams
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial… — John W. Gardner

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