Ugliness Quotes - Page 12

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

  Mason Cooley

  Ugly, Achieve

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• I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective.

  Gerard Way

  Perspective, Honest

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• It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Pride, Men, Doors

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• At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success
  We forget the easiness of free beauty
  Lying sad right around the corner,
  Only an instant removed,
  Unnoticed and squandered.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Lying, Busy, Forget

  "Serious Business". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

  Richard Steele

  Ugly, Honest, Fortitude

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.55

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• When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.

  John Lennon

  Children, Eye, Mind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

  Gregory Benford

  Contraceptives

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• Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Glory

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.157, Moody Publishers

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• The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

  Voltaire

  Men, Mind, Malevolence

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.197, Penguin

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• How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair.

  Amelia Earhart

  Choices, Soul, Dull

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• A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, Extinction, Achieve

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

  Philip Mallory Conley

  Imagination, Focus, Want

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• There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

  Stephanie Mills

  Opposites, Advertising, Banality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Bullying, Writing, Mean

  Source: frankviola.org

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• For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which he considers a defining point in his life as an activist, he's also set the stage for potential ugliness down the road.

  James Vance

  Read Between The Lines, Stories, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.

  Rose McGowan

  Mean, Fighting, People

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Two, People

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

  Laozi

  People, Evil, World

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• At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing, a health thing, or an I wish I had someone or something in my life thing. We all know some level of pain, so I like to see the ugliness of characters. It's a side that we show, only when we strip down in the bathroom mirror.

  Michael K. Williams

  Pain, Character, Wish

  Source: collider.com

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• Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Air, Medicine

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Trump provides a more direct and arrogant persona that produces the ugliness of a society ruled entirely by finance capital and savage market values, one that prides itself on the denigration of others as well as of justice, passion, and equality.

  Henry Giroux

  Passion, Pride, Justice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.

  Scott M. Gimple

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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