Ugliness Quotes - Page 11

• Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

  Isadora Duncan

  Tired, Eye, Simple

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• Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

  Brent Weeks

  Moments, Hours

  "The Black Prism". Book by Brent Weeks, August 25, 2010.

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• Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

  Rick Riordan

  War, Evil, Together

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• 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 a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.

  Robert D. Brinsmead

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Special, Purpose, Credit

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• Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.

  Suzy Kassem

  Weed, Flower, Negativity

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• What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

  George MacDonald

  Folly, My Own

  George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.347, e-artnow

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• Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.

  John Marsden

  Hate, Grief, Sadness

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• Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?

  Lewis Foreman Day

  Art, Hands, Grace

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• Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Dark, Self

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.103, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Air pollution is a threat to health, especially of older persons. It contributes significantly to the rising rates of chronic respiratory ailments. It stains our cities and towns with ugliness, soiling and corroding whatever it touches. Its damage extends to our forests and farmlands as well. The economic toll for our neglect amounts to billions of dollars each year.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Years, Cities, Air

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• All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, World, Forgotten

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• Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  House, Soul, Splendor

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• Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wrinkles, Together, Made

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• Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

  Gerard Way

  Brutality, World, Ugly

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• In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

  William Saroyan

  Good Times, Time Of Your Life

  The Time of Your Life (1939)

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• Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Desire, Dread

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• God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

  Colleen Hoover

  Beautiful, Things In Life, Giving

  FaceBook post by Colleen Hoover from Aug 11, 2014

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• Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Car, Our Society, Sofas

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

  E. Nesbit

  Beautiful, Ugly, Curious

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• Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Night, Sight

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• The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

  Mason Cooley

  Ugly, Achieve

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• The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
  I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Green, Hunger

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beauty, Simple, Imagination

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Ugly, Faces

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