quotations about contempt
It took two years for my contempt to turn to compassion.
And with mascara tears,
She cried I will not survive without you.
GRADE
"For the Memory of Love", Under the Radar
It is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she should look on us with contempt.
MARCEL PROUST
Swann's Way
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
EDMUND BURKE
"Letters on a Regicide Peace"
Contempt, because it feels more powerful has always helped us feel safer and more powerful than the anxiety we feel when we experience shame.
WENDY MAHILL
Growing a Passionate Heart
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short.
ELIZABETH GOUDGE
Green Dolphin Street
Your contempt and your sarcasm
It's all so transparent
Why don't you give up the act now, kid
Woo, and let some love in?
EELS
"Paradise Blues", End Times
A look of contempt
It's just a passing wave
HELL IS FOR HEROES
"Models for the Programme", Transmit Disrupt
The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.
JAMES BALDWIN
Giovanni's Room
Contempt paints its victims as buffoons worthy of mockery or as nonpersons worthy of complete disregard.
RICHARD J. DAVIDSON
Handbook of Affective Sciences
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy.
CRISS JAMI
Killosophy
We're burnin' down your city
The message has been sent
Angels without pity
We hold you in contempt
ALICE COOPER
"You and All of Your Friends", Paranormal
Contempt is often said to be a "cool" emotion, relative to the heat of anger or the visceral power of disgust. Contempt motivates neither attack nor withdrawel; rather, it seems to cause social-cognitive changes such that the object of contempt will be treated with less warmth, respect, and consideration in future interactions.
RICHARD J. DAVIDSON
Handbook of Affective Sciences
I clench my teeth and realize
My world is so near its demise
A dying sun in a poisonous sky, straining my eyes
Burning with contempt and conflict
FEAR FACTORY
"Body Hammer"
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H.L. MENCKEN
Minority Report
Contempt mates well with pity.
GLORIA NAYLOR
Linden Hills
To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
aphorism for a friend, Sep. 18, 1930
Contempt is a lifestyle.
GOD FORBID
"Better Days"
Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt,
And most contemptible to shun contempt.
ALEXANDER POPE
Moral Essays
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Richard III
Fear is contempt, whether the fearful know it or don't.
ADAM LEVI
The Instructions