disgust quotes

Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de  go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

- Charles Baudelaire
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage   a' Cyth e' re'.

Je ne comprends pas qu'une main pure puisse toucher un journal sans une convulsion de de  go u" t. I cannot imagine how a pure hand can touch a newspaper without disgust.

- Charles Baudelaire
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.81.

   Oh wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threw me in front of the Judges 84 And my silly old collarbone's bust.

- SirJohn Betjeman
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Hunter Trails'.

Les amours meurent par le de  go u" t, et l'oubli les enterre. Loves die from disgust, and forgetting buries them.

-Jean de La Bruye'  re
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Du c½ur', no.32.

The historical repugnancetowomanhas a rational basis: disgust is reason's proper response to the grossness of procreative nature.

- Heinz R(udolf) Pagels
  Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, ch.1,'Sex andViolence, or Nature and Art'.

Dada began not as an art form but as a disgust.

-Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock Tzara
Quoted in SaranneAlexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).