Grim Beauty Quotes

#1. All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.

Christopher Morley

#2. They question me everyday. There's always bright lights and they give me medicine that's supposed to make me tell the truth, but it doesn't work on me. Or maybe it only works when I start talking, but I never do.

Embee

#3. I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings interfere with them exist in a state of stasis - they are self-supporting, self-sustaining.

Ken Yeang

#4. He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

J.D. Salinger

#5. The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world].

Dada Bhagwan

#6. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love the things that chafe. The things that fill me with stress so total I can't remember when a block of it didn't rest on top of my heart. I love what, if broken, can't be repaired. What, if lost can't be replaced.
I love my burdens.

Dennis Lehane

#7. To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

Sol Stern

#8. I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening.

George Carlin

#9. They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

Cormac McCarthy

#10. Liv has always been the one part of my life I got right.

Nina Lane

#11. You are the beauty I've been seeking all my life. My existence was dark, grim, full of struggle, until you. You are the light that pushes the darkness away. When I'm with you, I can see my way, and I can breathe again.

Jennifer Ashley

#12. Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind - unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.

Epictetus

#13. I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people I portray may be grim, back-breaking, depraved, the people themselves are always remarkable characters and souls

G.M.B. Akash

#14. I know from grim experience that there is a beauty to her inner layers, too. Marvels of symmetry and craftsmanship sealed away inside her like the jewelled movements of a timepiece, fine works of art never meant to be seen.

Isaac Marion

#15. If you hate yourself nobody will love you

Thabiso Monkoe

#16. Do not seek fame. Do not make plans. Do not be absorbed by activities. Do not think that you know. Be aware of all that is and dwell in the infinite. Wander where there is no path. Be all that heaven gave you, but act as though you have received nothing. Be empty, that is all.

Zhuangzi

#17. In the Netherlands, fewer than one in thirty riders wear helmets, the streets are full of cyclists, and the bike accident and head injury rate is far lower than it is in the United States.

Grant Petersen

#18. King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You

Stephen Baxter