Repulsion Quotes

“I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
― Georges Bataille

“You know how old people lose all shame about eating, and it makes you puke to watch them? Old junkies are the same about junk. They gibber and squeal at sight of it. The spit hangs off their chin, and their stomach rumbles and all their guts grind in peristalsis while they cook up, dissolving the body’s decent skin, you expect any moment a great blob of protoplasm will flop right out and surround the junk. Really disgust you to see it. 'Well, my boys will be like that one day,' I thought philosophically. 'Isn’t life peculiar?”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Intimidation," she told me, amused by my repulsion.

"Men abandon battle when they see their own fates in these ruined faces”
― Rin Chupeco

“That was how I responded to beauty, in both women and men: drawn to it at first, and then recoiling. Ruled by my own shallow impulses, then angry at the trick.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories