#ugliness

Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called the anti-beauty quark. Could it be that ugly people now have something tangible to blame? ↗

— Michael Quinion

#large-hadron-collider #ugliness #beauty

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#beauty #nothing #often #subdued #ugliness

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#given #good #many #most #over

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#bird #even #everything #flower #ocean

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? ↗

— Anna Freud

#around #basically #everything #everywhere #friendship

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#tears #ugliness #introspection

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

#imagination #ugliness #imagination

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

#busy #corner #dejan-stojanovic #expensive #free

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#women #life

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#ugliness #beauty