Ugly Quotes

Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.

~ Ricky Maye

Beauty becomes uglyunder the influence ofthe demons inside the mind.

~ Hobs

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

~ Ricky Maye

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

~ Ricky Maye

Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,Without first weighing the interior.And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

~ Suzy Kassem

Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps.Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance.Ugly is not the absence of beauty.Uglyis the inability to identify it.The inability to be surprised by it.It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it.Beauty is simplythe manifestation oflove.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

~ Criss Jami

The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside.

~ Sarah Brownlee

Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower intestine.' I'd put that on a T-shirt but probably Mark Twain already said it.

~ Jenny Lawson

My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead,love, I love you because you are clear and dark.

~ Pablo Neruda

Sometimes I wonder if we ever truly let anyone completely in. The desire for another human being to know you, all of you, all the pieces, even the ones you’re ashamed of — is huge. But too often, we sit down and sort through the pieces only picking out the pretty ones, leaving the ugly ones behind, not realizing that choosing not to share with someone else is like committing a crime against our very soul

~ Rachel Van Dyken

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

~ Andy Warhol

It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down. I promise I can fly before I hit the ground. It doesn't even hurt anymore. I swear, it doesn't hurt.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

~ Amy Harmon

My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound.

~ Chad Sugg

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 very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

~ Scott Westerfeld

Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable features, it reacts with alarm or aversion. Faces which don’t fit in the picture are socially banned. An ugly countenance, a hideous outlook can be considered as a crime and criminals must be inexorably discarded from society. ( Ugly mug offense )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority

~ Ray Palla

When she awoke, the world was on fire.

~ Scott Westerfeld

You must really love this guy, huh? I mean, to be crying as ugly as you are?

~ Amber Silvia

It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

~ Jean Lorrain

An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your vision will determine your future, mirror only helps you to see your ugly or beautiful face, but only the vision you have can take you far beyond your expectations and imaginations in life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

I have hopein who I am becoming.I have belief in every scar and disgraceful wordI have ever spokenor been toldbecause it is still teaching meand I have hope in who I am becoming.They say it takes 756 days to run to someone you loveand they also say that the only romance worth fighting foris the one with yourselfand I know by nowthat they say a lot of things,people talking everywherewithout saying a word,but if it took me all those years to learn myselfor teach myselfhow to look into the mirrorwithout breaking itI know for a fact that it was a fight worth fighting.I stood up for my own head and so did my heartand we are coming to terms with ourselves.Shaking hands, saying ”let’s make this workfor we have places to goand people to seeand we will need each other”So I have hopein who I am becoming.It’s Julyand I have hope in who I am becoming.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.

~ Markus Zusak

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.

~ Bryn Greenwood

He locked the doors and windows and sat in the middle of a room afraid of going out there in the storm and rain, in the darkest night he had ever seen. All of a sudden there were knocks everywhere and the walls turned into the glass so that he could helplessly witness his fears approach him like the ghosts. He saw them crawling on the wall and climbing the roof staring into his eyes, in no time the walls disappeared and they stood around him laughing and consuming him one by one at a time. all he saw, in the end, was the ugly and scary faces of himself.

~ Akshay Vasu

I'm so ugly,” she whispers through sobs.It throws me because that couldn't be further from the truth. “You're beautiful,” I tell her. “Not on the inside where it counts. My insides are dirty and ugly.” I brush her tears away and look into her eyes. “Then you don't see the parts that I do.

~ Ashley Jade

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.

~ Paul Hoffman

People can still see you even if you enter the next door. Even if you are dead and gone, they can still see you. What is necessary is whether they see you for the good, bad or ugly reason.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

~ Charles Bukowski

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

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

~ Lucy Grealy