Quotes about Disgust

The beasts and the trees will one day share with us a new creation and we will see them as God sees them and know that they are very good. Meanwhile, if we embrace them for themselves, we discover both them and ourselves as evil. This is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—disgust with the things we have misused and hatred of ourselves for misusing them.

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

Babies! That's all it's about. Who ever knew the world would be all about babies?" Samantha shouts. "Every time I see a baby, I swear, I want to throw up," Miranda says. "I did throw up once." I nod eagerly. "I saw a filthy bib, and that was it." "Why don't these people just get cats and a litter box?" Samantha asks.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Watching Knotcher torment Casey while the rest of us just sat and watched filled me not only with self-loathing, but with disgust for my whole species. If there were other civilizations out there, why would they ever want to make contact with humanity? If this was how we treated each other, how much kindness could we possibly show to some race of bug-eyed beings from beyond?

A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way. As long as we think the next election might eliminate crime and establish justice or another scientific breakthrough might save the environment or another pay raise might push us over the edge of anxiety into a life of tranquility, we are not likely to risk the arduous uncertainties of the life of faith.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

One cannot tell when grace is coming or how it will work on the soul; whether it will come as a result of a disgust with sin.

Tertullian said: "Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling.

Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.