Ugly Quotes

“Ugly is political.

It is the determiner for who does and does not work;

who does and does not Love;

who does and does not die;

who does and does not eat.”
― Da'Shaun L. Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.
For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.”
― Oscar Wilde., The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Most people want beautiful things merely to impress others.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Once we start to celebrate ugliness, we become ugly to.”
― Roger Scruton

“You're so beautiful," he says as he kisses along my clavicle, one hand loose around my neck and the other moving up my thigh. "You're so beautiful."

But I need him to love me ugly.”
― Rachel Harrison

“The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's, over to shoot guns in the field.
"Why you crying girl?" Constantine asked me in the kitchen.
I told her what the boy had called me, tears streaming down my face,
"Well? Is you?"
I blinked, paused my crying. "Is I what?"
"Now you look a here, Eugenia" - because Constantine was the only one who'd occasionally follow Mama's rule. "Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be hurtful, mean person. Is you one a them peoples?"
"I don't know. I don't think so." I sobbed.
Constantine sat down next to me, at the kitchen table. I heard the cracking of her swollen joints. She pressed her thumb hard in the palm of my hand, something we both knew meant 'Listen. Listen to me.'

"Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision." Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums. "You gone have to ask yourself, 'Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?'

She kept her thumb pressed hard in my hand. I nodded that I understood. I was just smart enough to realize she meant white people. And even though I still felt miserable, and knew what I was, most likely, ugly, it was the first time she ever talked to me like I was something besides my mother's white child. All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“To me, moths are ugly butterflies. But these days, society probably considers them beauty queens.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“A trace of love's purification is evident the moment instinct wears a human face, even the most anonymous, the most despicable.”
― Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

“Those who are meek shall inherit this earth; the ugly ones shall have their cake and munch on it, too.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed

“Some people would be ugly if they were a few degrees more good-looking.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Looks can be deceiving, especially good ones.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Beautiful erupting volcano and ugly air quality!”
― Steven Magee

“Often the ugly ones with a pure and strong essence will make your life comfortable and happy.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“A man, perhaps an inch shorter than Andrei, sensing the height comparison, slowly passed him. The stranger still wore an N-95 mask. The pandemic ended three years ago, but Andrei identified why masks were still worn by others. While millions had died from COVID-19, others silently and ashamedly rejoiced in the virus’ demands. The requirement of face masks made it mandatory for everyone to cover more than half of their face. And for those who disliked their face, they, for nearly two years, had the chance to go out in the world and not be ugly for once. Suddenly, while they were not beautiful, they were not hideous. Neutrality can do so much for someone. This period was like a gift for those with horrid teeth, large features, cystic acne, injuries, scarring, and discoloration. Never before were so many people looked straight in the eyes. Masks were some people’s only chance to show who they were. And now, when the pandemic had ended, they were back in the shadows. Large groups of people, however, as Andrei had seen, still wore them, beneath the excuse that the virus could still return. "I would love to kiss one of you on the cheek, he thought.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie so exaggerated, so voluptuous, that it comes all the way around to beauty”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It's cruel to think of your classmates like that, but you have to focus on their weaknesses to survive. You have to make their problems and insecurities seem worse than your own, otherwise how can you live with yourself?”
― Julie Mayhew, Red Ink

“There's nothing uglier than an ugly mouth, there's nothing filthier than a filthy heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“The ugliness didn't matter - after all, there was no one to see me.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“There was a long, ugly pause. Uglier than the child of a man and a sheep, as the hillmen have it.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Fool Jobs

“La beauté est partout. Même dans l’écœurant. En particulier dans
l’effroyable.
Parce que sans laideur, il n’y aurait pas de beauté.
Parce que sans beauté, nous ne survivrions pas à notre douleur, notre
peine et nos chagrins.”
― Madeline Sheehan, Unattainable

“So who will I get today?’ asked one eagerly,
‘The most beautiful of them all,’ chuckled the eunuch.
‘What is she called?’
‘Phulwati, Mrignaini, Meethi, Champa...’
Hira began reciting the poetic list of names. Little did the boys know that the whores down below were bald, toothless hags, some marked with pox, others filled with pus. The warm blanket of darkness made them all beautiful.”
― Ekta Kumar, Box of Lies: A Love Story, Without Love

“The truth was an ugly, dangerous thing.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Often, two kinds of people hide from sight because of fear, one who is beautiful and another who is ugly; normal people don't.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Some faces can be confusing – looking at them, one
can’t really decide whether they are beautiful or ugly. Tasvak’s face was not one of them. It took just one look to be certain that it is the ugliest face one has ever seen.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila

“Nachiketa was the commander of the Rongcha army, and the king’s son-in-law. He was so cruel that he had no reason to be ugly, and he was so ugly that he had no reason to be cruel.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila

“I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarse half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Some were made ugly for seeing the ugliness of people, whereas the pure saw beauty and were made beautiful.”
― Criss Jami

“Many USA people are fat, ugly, sick and on drugs from their forties onward.”
― Steven Magee

“I am as old as the mountains
Abd as ugly as the rough terrain”
― Avijeet Das

“I am as old as the mountains,
And as ugly as the rough terrain...”
― Avijeet Das