#ugliness

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#certain #far #find #furnishing #i

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. ↗

— Renee Vivien

#been #condemned #had #i #masculine

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

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

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

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#alone #badly #be true #belongs #cannot

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#ugliness #beauty

Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous. ↗

— Lloyd Biggle Jr.

#life #mediocrity #ugliness #ugly #beauty

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ↗

— Serge Gainsbourg

#because #lasts #superior #ugliness #way