Disgust Quotes

That physical shudder. That instinctive rejection. Disgust is not merely an aversion to something foul. It is a powerful emotional compass. Protecting us from danger. Compelling us to reject what is unacceptable. Whether spoiled food or a distorted moral idea. It defines our boundaries. These quotes explore the multifaceted dimensions of this primal human emotion.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilat...
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.
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— Friedrich Nietzsche
Human NatureGood Vs EvilDisgustMetaphorPhilosophy
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats....
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
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— Ralph Waldo Emerson
BalanceDualityWorldBeautyDisgustParadoxLife
Quote by William Shakespeare: I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads....
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
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— William Shakespeare
HatePrideDisgust
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust....
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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— Marcus Tullius Cicero
PleasureDisgustExtremesHuman NatureEmotion
Quote by Dave Barry: Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting....
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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— Dave Barry
HobbiesFishingHumorDisgust
Quote by William Shakespeare: Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes....
Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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— William Shakespeare
DisgustAngerRejection
Quote by Barack Obama: I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that'...
I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.
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— Barack Obama
Gun ControlViolencePoliticsChildrenDisgustInaction
Quote by Albert Camus: The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it...
The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
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— Albert Camus
EmpathySufferingWorldDisgustConnection
Quote by Groucho Marx: I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up....
I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up.
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— Groucho Marx
HumorDisgustSarcasm
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of sp...
All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.
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— Ernest Hemingway
PoliticsDisgustCorruption
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands....
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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— Friedrich Nietzsche
ReligionCriticismDisgust
Quote by William Shakespeare: Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I ...
Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hearOf this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
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— William Shakespeare
AngerDisgustPolitics
Quote by Charles Dickens: They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet ...
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
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— Charles Dickens
DisgustSocial CommentaryMoralityJudgmentCharacter