Ugliness Quotes

296 Ugliness quotes by 246 unique authors

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it… — Toni Morrison
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of… — Salman Rushdie
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of… — Salman Rushdie
Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness -Gin… — Tite Kubo
At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction -… — Agatha Christie
In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life,… — Azar Nafisi
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill… — Goldie Hawn
Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at… — Ayn Rand
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?… — George MacDonald
Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world. — Goldie Hawn
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body,… — Yukio Mishima
Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no… — Neal Stephenson
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the… — Chaim Potok
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret. — Sara Shepard
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet… — Tom Robbins
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. — Ian Mcewan
if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives — Wayne Dyer
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among… — Thomas Hardy
What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings,… — Melissa Marr
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by… — Wendell Berry
If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all… — Yasmina Khadra
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? — Kate Morton

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