Ugliness Quotes

Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.

~ Hanif Kureishi

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.

~ Anthony Liccione

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 which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.

~ Lucy Grealy

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

~ Jess C. Scott

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

~ Suzy Kassem

The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

~ Christian D. Larson

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

~ Kathryn Davis

Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.

~ Saim Cheeda

We can all agree that children are ugly.

~ Josh Lieb

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

~ Ray Bradbury

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful and nonviolent society.

~ Debasish Mridha

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

~ Betty Smith

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot have a beautiful life if you always focus on ugliness in others.

~ Debasish Mridha

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

~ Charles Baudelaire

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.

~ Suzy Kassem

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

~ Yukio Mishima

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. The world, the physical world, that was once all in all to me, has at moments such as these no road through a wood, no stretch of shore, that can bring me comfort. The beauty of these things can no longer at such moments make up to me at all for the ugliness of man, his cruelty, his greed, his lying face.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.

~ Debasish Mridha

A beautiful person is a person who can see the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

~ Debasish Mridha

The sound of her voice was so pretty, it almost disguised the ugliness of her words.

~ Grace Burrowes

Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

~ George R.r. Martin

Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Then, one day, for no reason, he sees you as ugly as you really are and he is not blind anymore and then you see yourself as ugly as he sees you and you lose your man and your feeling...

~ Ernest Hemingway

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I feel ugly” I said and you looked at me as if I spoke a different language. There are things you will never understand and if there were words to describe the rapture that takes place in my head from time to time I would put my hand in front of your eyes to protect you from all the ugliness in the world. I kept my eyes on the streetlights outside the window and you kissed every inch of my body as if you could kiss the pain away.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I've played Romeo for Juliet(But in depth)It's vignettes of silhouettes(And then read)And watched Russian roulette, yeah red SovietYet doing it simultaneouslyWhile dropping down shed oubliettesTurned around and took truth to the head thatLove is the ugliest thing too beautiful for death

~ Criss Jami

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Ugliness sees ugliness, beauty sees beauty.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.

~ Bryant Mcgill

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Life is beautiful for those who can see the beauty in the midst of the ugliness.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space.

~ Debasish Mridha

Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

~ Debasish Mridha