Revulsion Quotes

• I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Overcoming

• It’s unacceptable to me. The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me. Most people have children to fulfill their own ambitions, not to give anything. They don’t think about what they can give this child, what they can teach her. They just try to shape her according to some weird script — whatever they couldn’t do in life, like becoming a writer or a doctor. Or some woman who’s almost 30 and thinks no one needs her, she says, ‘Oh, I’ll have a kid. He will love me and become my reason to live.’ And then this kid becomes a soccer ball she and her boyfriend will kick back and forth. I’d rather die from torture because the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle.

  

  Valeria Lukyanova
  • Children
  • Family
  • Worst

• ...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.

  

  David Fairchild
  • Interesting
  • Amazing
  • Problems

• The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fear
  • Eating
  • Sculpture

• You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

  

  William Gibson
  • Writing
  • Natural
  • Overcoming

• For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • War
  • Spirit
  • Depression

• When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Think
  • Reward
  • Revulsion

• Mustering this sad, mutinous little force, I drove them before me up the Linar gorge, cursing the lot of them. It was not difficult for me to work up a rage at this moment. All of a sudden I felt that revulsion against an alien way of life that anyone who travels in remote places experiences from time to time. I longed for clean clothes; the company of people who meant what they said, and did it. I longed for a hot bath and a drink.

  

  Eric Newby
  • Work
  • Force
  • Experiences