Ugliness Quotes

296 Ugliness quotes by 246 unique authors

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice. — Freeman Dyson
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. — Ouida
At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path,… — Carolyn Hart
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment. — Michio Kushi
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler
Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with… — Tom Hodgkinson
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state… — Alain de Botton
Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world.… — Ezra Taft Benson
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the… — Sean O'Casey
Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of… — Miuccia Prada
If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in… — Edith Schaeffer
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only… — Liam O'Flaherty
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing. — Nick Clooney
Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener… — Frank J. Oteri
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws. — Marcia Gay Harden
What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart… — Sayo Masuda
There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality… — Martin Puryear
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing. — Matt Haig
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. — Jean Lorrain
Industry is the root of all ugliness. — Oscar Wilde
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak. — August Strindberg
Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of. — Matthew Modine
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION,… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge… — Milan Kundera

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