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Tag Name "Ugliness" (179)

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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ugliness is a point of view an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Austin O'Malley
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Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Ugliness without tact is horrible.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.
Johnny Depp
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Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.
Henry van de Velde
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Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
Umberto Eco
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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
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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
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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 life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.
Diana Gabaldon
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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.
Agatha Christie
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Along with everything else, I know that there is a beauty in mankind. It is a beauty that no ugliness, no violence, no hatred and no evil can ever completely erase. I have also learned there is a majesty in mankind. It is a majesty that no sickness, no suffering, no want or lack, no poverty and no pain can ever truly subjugate.
Don Pendleton
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Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.
Alexandra Bracken
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The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.
Eckhart Tolle
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No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!
Edmond Rostand
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Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.
Amy Harmon
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
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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
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Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?
Ellen Hopkins
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From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
Andrei Platonov
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That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
Fay Wray
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
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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
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