100 Quotes About Ugly

There are times in life when you have to say “I’m sorry. I’m ugly.” It’s okay to be insecure about your looks, but even more important is knowing that you are on the right track on your way to becoming beautiful. These quotes will give you the boost you need to develop confidence and self-esteem, and help you see your true beauty.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the...
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. Ann Voskamp
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People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to...
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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. Dorothy Parker
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I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life's illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe. . Suzy Kassem
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The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient for us, and take them for granted because their doors are always open - only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of substance and truth. Suzy Kassem
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. Suzy Kassem
Truth will keep on telling the truth Lies will lie...
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Truth will keep on telling the truth Lies will lie to be more uncouth No more rainbow after the storm Nowhere to escape leaving the norm Munia Khan
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
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The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns. Matshona Dhliwayo
Some people would regard people who look like they do...
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Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When it comes to their love lives, some people do...
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When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Any girl with a grin never looks grim.
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Any girl with a grin never looks grim. Amit Kalantri
It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many...
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It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us. Curtis Tyrone Jones
I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed...
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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights. Jane Austen
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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across–not to just depict life–or criticize it–but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way. Ernest Hemingway
We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed...
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We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something Sunday Adelaja
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Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an houror two. This is your fairy. It ain’t perfect and it ain’t honey sweet with roses on the bed. It’s real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love. Don’t throw it away searching for someone else’s love. Don’t be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go. Be someone’s someone for someone. Be that someone for him. Charlotte Eriksson
If a woman tells you how terrible she looks, sincerely...
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If a woman tells you how terrible she looks, sincerely deny it, even if you agree. Matshona Dhliwayo
I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the...
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I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the mountain with torches. It was not because he was ugly but because they were. :) Chuck Bridges
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Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface - from the prison of vanity and youur own looks - and sets you free to embrace the soul within. Soman Chainani
(When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you...
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(When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Sir Winston Churchill
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Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is). Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of...
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Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix...
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It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head. Christina Engela
Beautiful beginnings are often born from ugly endings.
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Beautiful beginnings are often born from ugly endings. Matshona Dhliwayo
For he was aware of the great secret of life:...
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For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake. Milan Kundera
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Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk! " Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."( Reported exchange will Winston Churchill. Unknown
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Tony and Peg have two kids, Terry-Lynn and Harvey, both of whom are enrolled in so many extracurricular and afterschool clubs that they hardly ever see their parents. If Terry-Lynn is in Girl Guides, she doesn’t have to see Peg inviting the Purolator man in for “a cup of coffee”. If Harvey is in the anime drawing club, he doesn’t have to see Peg kissing Mr. Cooper from across the street, even if all the other neighbours secretly know what’s going on. Tony has no idea, all he knows is that Peg isn’t the same Peg he married back in 2003. All he knows is that she’s changed a great deal, and not for the better, like a beautiful butterfly regressing back into a devouring, ugly caterpillar in the span of only a couple of months. Rebecca McNutt
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I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' – there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out. Frank Zappa
A bore or an uggo might manage not to get...
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A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way. Tana French
The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on...
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The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside. Anthony Liccione
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is...
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I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. Mary Balogh
If all we had were roses, would the thorns then...
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If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful? Kamand Kojouri
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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
The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always...
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The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful? Mary Balogh
He used to say the uglier things are the longer...
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He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever. Mal Peet
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony....
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Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue. Yevgeny Zamyatin
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This boy, " he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for him. He was very young. He knew very little of life. He saw beauty but he did not feel any true passion. How could he? He did not know. He had not really encountered the force of beauty's opposite."" Are you more cynical now, then?" she asked him." Cynical, " he frowned, "No, not that. I know that there is an ugly side of life-and not just human life. I know that everything is not simply beautiful. I am not a romantic as this boy was. But I am not a cynic either. There is something enduring in all of life, Anne, something tough. Something. Something terribly weak yet incredibly powerful.. . Mary Balogh
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Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you’ll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty. . Rebecca McNutt
Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on...
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Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly. Jodi Picoult
Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then,...
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Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind. Kamand Kojouri
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How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the époque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is. Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness.
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Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness. Richelle E. Goodrich
Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic...
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Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly. Ann Brashares
Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your...
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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.
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Beauty becomes uglyunder the influence ofthe demons inside the mind. HoBs
Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move,...
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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...
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If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment. Ricky Maye
Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you
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Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you Ricky Maye
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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...
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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
No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a...
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No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful Munia Khan
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do. Andy Warhol
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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
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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
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Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for. Amy Harmon
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My body is an ugly masterpiece that lives off the beauty of sound. Chad Sugg
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Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Suzy Kassem
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind. Scott Westerfeld
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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
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Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority Ray Palla
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When she awoke, the world was on fire. Scott Westerfeld
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Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world Munia Khan
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You must really love this guy, huh? I mean, to be crying as ugly as you are? Amber Silvia
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It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone. Suzy Kassem
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It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. Jean Lorrain
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An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble. Matshona Dhliwayo
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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
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I have hopein who I am becoming. I have belief in every scar and disgraceful word I 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 it I 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
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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
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The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations. Michael Bassey Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart. Michael Bassey Johnson
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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. Charles Bukowski
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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
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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
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Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone. Suzy Kassem
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There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly. Pawan Mishra
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When I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity ofmy city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked theheartaway. Charles Bukowski
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The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs. Terry Hayes
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The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You can either choose a beautiful to fuck, which everyone fucks, or choose to fuck an ugly one, which no one fucks. M.F. Moonzajer
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Even the most beautiful girl in the world becomes unsightly without depth of character. Ken Poirot
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What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside. Criss Jami
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That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly. Scott Westerfeld
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The sound of her voice was so pretty, it almost disguised the ugliness of her words. Grace Burrowes
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There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Regardless of how beautiful the world could be; when you have no place in it, it is always ugly. M.F. Moonzajer
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It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly. JeanPaul Sartre
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As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful". Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow. Jodi Lynn Anderson