#ugliness

Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#ugliness #beauty

Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#god #grace #mercy #transformation #ugliness

Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#change #flooding #flower #fragile #frost

I have an ugliness it's impossible to love. ↗

— Brian McGreevy

#love #ugliness #love

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. ↗

— Mo Yan

#dark #dark side #express #expression #human

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#beauty #cities #everything #i #king

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#societies #sunk #ugliness #weight

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 seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#grew #i #immediately #knee #seated

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. ↗

— John Malkovich

#clothes #coverage #era #fashion #i