Quotes about Disgust

Disgust, a disintegration of everything.

The emotion of disgust evolved initially to optimize responses to the omnivore's dilemma. Individuals who had a properly calibrated sense of disgust were able to consume more calories than their overly disgustable cousins while consuming fewer dangerous microbes than their insufficiently disgustable cousins.

Hatred towards people on the basis of their background or faith is repugnant

And everything that he saw before him He despised or hated.

What is the meaning of this gross outrage?

What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to have a peculiarly intellectual sanction. Our preference, even as articulated by those who are most mild in their persons, is increasingly for the absolute and extreme, of which we feel violence to be the true sign. The gentlest of us will know that the tigers of wrath are to be preferred to the horses of instruction and will consider it intellectual cowardice to take into account what happens to those who ride tigers.

I resent and revile [the word genocide]. The word is tidy and efficient. It holds no true emotion. It is impersonal when it needs to be intimate, cool and sterile when it needs to be gruesome. The word is hollow, true but disingenuous, a performance, the worst kind of lie.

I cannot repress my indignation at the use of those foolish obsolete, odious, words Whig and Tory.

While I am not teetotal, a drunk woman I find revolting and Burns orgies detestable.

... the whole thing is disgraceful from beginning to end. Disgraceful and vulgar.

What dirt, what bitterness, what meanness...

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or — the color work in a ten-cent magazine.

The truth is, however, that when two individuals detest each other, while being unable to get along without each other, it is not of all human relations the truest and most moving, but rather the most pitiable.