Sheryl WuDunn

People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.

American Businesswoman

Stephen King

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Author

Andrew W.K.

Music is about truth, and truth contains the ugliness and the dark and evil and hate and sadness as well as the happiness and beauty and everything in between. Having all those extremes is itself a satisfying, positive thing.

American Musician

Garth Davis

My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.

Australian Director

Thornton Wilder

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

American Novelist

Matthew Modine

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

American Actor

Rachel Kushner

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

American Writer

Marcia Gay Harden

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

American Actress

Thomas Kinkade

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

American Artist

Andrei Platonov

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Russian Writer

Use 'ugliness' when something's appearance causes a strong negative emotional reaction.

Visual Displeasure

'Ugliness' can imply an inner quality of something, going deeper than looks.

Beyond Aesthetics

'Ugliness' suggests a higher degree of unattractiveness than simply calling something 'ugly'.

Intensity of Ugly

Apply 'ugliness' to describe actions or attitudes that are ethically repulsive.

Moral Repugnance

'Ugliness' can express the affective impact of someone's negative behavior or character.

Emotional Effect

Use 'ugliness' to discuss qualities that make a person's spirit or character unappealing.

Internal Ugliness

 Wherever he went, at every stall he stopped he was closely followed by a devoted smiling woman of indescribable ugliness. Try as he might, he couldn't get away from her. A few days later he received a letter from a constituent saying how much she admired him,

An inventory of the...

 billowing childhood well I have a very good function and love will play a current role in your heart an artist must always see below the surface find the ugliness beneath the beauty you must come and visit me sometime see some of my work

Genius: Picasso -...

 that are sort of random. They're infinitely removed from nothingness, but they fall infinitely short of complete fullness. They're a mixture of chaos and order, of mathematical elegance and ugliness. So I would describe these realities

Why does the universe...

 They want to show and emphasize the horrors of US racism, so they rely on it for shock value. Invoking it brings into stark relief the ugliness of our nation's past. But they forget

Why it's so hard to talk...

 And we've got to be willing to not shelter our children from the ugliness of racism when black parents don't have the luxury to do so, especially those who have young black sons.

Verna Myers: How to...

 So what have I realized, being on the receiving end of all this ugliness? Well, my biggest takeaway is that for decades, we've been focused on political correctness,

Let's try emotional...

 to place on a kid. And I have to tell you, I think it leads to some very strange excesses. We are now so anxious to protect our kids from the world's ugliness

Jennifer Senior: For...

 it will always be ugly or dull. Bridges -- beauty enriches life. Doesn't it? It enhances our well-being. Ugliness and mediocrity does exactly the opposite.