Ugliness Quotes - Page 8

• Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Distance, Cities, America

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 3, The Golden Horde, p. 58), 1989.

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• Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

  Florence Earle Coates

  Age, Thank God, Ephemeral

  The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

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• The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.

  George Sarton

  Vanity, Perfection, Creative

  George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

  Jules Breton

  Beauty, Art, Common

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.

  Arthur Lynch

  Love, Loss, Together

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Country, League, Contentment

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• The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

  John Carroll

  Lying, Pursuit, Ideological

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• The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Lying, Real, Technology

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• There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

  Anais Nin

  Doe, Paid

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• The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, Love Is, Anime

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• Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Light, Perfect

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• Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Pretty Woman, Inexplicable

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• To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Mistake, Mean

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• UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Humility, Virtue, Certain

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.227, 谷月社

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• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Weather, White

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.73, Anchor

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• Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.76, Macmillan

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• We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

  Charlie Pierce

  Government, Important, Matter

  "The President Finally Accepts America for Ourselves" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 27, 2015.

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• There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death

  Jean Toomer

  Pain, Mean, Perfect

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• For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Sky, Republic

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• Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Pain, Common Sense

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• Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Hurt, Recovery

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• I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.

  Jewel

  Artist, Honest, Goodness

  "BWW Interviews: Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Actress!! JEWEL Brings Her Many Incredible Talents to the Agua Caliente Resort Casino, 6/7". Interview with David Green, www.broadwayworld.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, Giving Up, Real

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• A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

  Mo Yan

  Dark, Expression, Criticism

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• It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Fighting, Keys, Self

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