Ugliness Quotes

296 Ugliness quotes by 246 unique authors

With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious… — Diana Gabaldon
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference… — Marcel Duchamp
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the… — Wilfred Owen
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up. — Audrey Hepburn
I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for… — Marguerite Duras
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.… — H. L. Mencken
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it. — Veronica Roth
No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by. — Richard Curtis
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. — Henry Miller
I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty… — Karen Marie Moning
Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I… — Lauren Myracle
This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from… — Lucy Grealy
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to… — Truman Capote
The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated… — Ted Dekker
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is… — Tim O'Brien
Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer. — Lauren Myracle
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings;… — Kristin Hannah
He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have been… — Melina Marchetta
A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn't matter.… — Veronica Roth
Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is… — Charles R. Swindoll
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last… — Giacomo Casanova
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. — R C Sproul
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. — Truman Capote
Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one… — Khalil Gibran

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