Key Insights & Memorable Quotes
Below are the most popular and impactful highlights and quotes from Beautiful Ugly:
“Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.”
“I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.”
“Life is beautiful and life is ugly and we have to learnTo live with both sides of the same coinand see the light in the darkness.The world is Beautiful ugly,relationships are Beautiful ugly,and life is Beautiful ugly.”
“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person. Especially yourself.”
“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I think sometimes it’s only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had.”
“Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently, like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.”
“My books have always been a place to hide myself inside myself when the real world gets too loud.”
“Men still rule this world and as a result the world is broken. Men still hold most positions of power, men control governments, men control the media, and it is always men who start wars. Men have tricked women into thinking they see us as equals, but real equality for all woman everywhere, still feels like little more than a pipe dream. The women on this island have had enough.”
“Fear can make something beautiful appear ugly.”
“It’s strange to think that this spectacular night sky is always above us, wherever we are. We’re all just too busy looking down to remember to look up.”
“I waste so much time replaying old conversations, wondering if things might be different now if I had said something different then. But it’s all a waste of time. Wishing you could change the script of your life when the scene is over is pointless.”
“The only good thing about losing everything is having nothing left to lose.”
“Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.”
“When life blends itself into a question markYou start looking for answersAnd when you can’t find the right onesYou go looking for the wrong ones instead.”
“Sadness can consume a person if it is allowed to linger too long. It takes root and buries itself inside a person's soul, until every thought is too heavy, too painful to think.”
“Mors janua vitae? It’s Latin for ‘death is the gate of life.”
“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person.”
“We live in a world filled with hate and hurt, these are dark times, but there is still love and light if you look for it.”
“Grief is like a fingerprint, different every time.”
“Hope can be just as devastating as despair.”
“When life bends itself into a question mark you start looking for answers, and when you can’t find the right ones, you go looking for the wrong ones instead. That’s all there is to it.”
“I think sometimes things have to get really dark for us to see what we have.”
“… they were all magicians of words, and that was my favourite kind of magic.”
“I have forgotten how it feels not to feel lonely.”
“Guilt is such a sticky emotion; you can’t wash the damn thing off.”
“One of the many things I love about my dog is that he always agrees with me.”
“Maybe everyone reaches an age when they can’t help thinking that they should have done more, lived more, been more than who they are. I’m not who I wanted to be.”
“The only thing I don’t like about being alone is the amount of time it forces me to spend with myself.”
“No man is an island,But a woman can beif she wants.”
“When I spend too long thinking about how and why our marriage unraveled, my memory tends to wander to happier times. We weren’t always the us we are now. Which is probably why I am so afraid of walking away. What if I never meet someone who can make me that happy again? Because we were happy, before. Nobody has ever made me happier than he did. But nobody has ever made me feel this sad either. Is being with someone who used to love you better than being alone?”
