Emotional Aversion Quotes

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

I really do hate to sing.

Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

Of all the countries in which I have lived Argentina is certainly the one I loved least – indeed I felt a profound contempt for it.

Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left. That was a tough exit line to top.

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

After my last girlfriend broke up with me, I looked at how our relationship had gone and how my previous relationships had gone, and even though those girlfriends had all been very nice women, I realized that I did not like being a boyfriend. I didn't like that role, so I thought I had to figure out some other way to, you know, have sex. And I much prefer paying for sex to being a boyfriend.

It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

I don't know the reasons why something is intimidating to me or disgusting to me and I don't like feeling that way, either. I don't like it when something turns me off, on any level. So, its a matter of saying: Well, I can either sit here and reject, or I can do double-time embracing of something else just to reassure myself that I'm not against the world.