Sordidness Quotes

#1. There is no escape from sordidness but by being free from money-craving, with all its base hopes and temptations, its watching for death, its hinted requests.

George Eliot

#2. Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#3. Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

William Ames

#4. And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect: it had intensified the sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold.

Mark Twain

#5. Every civilization when it loses its inner vision
and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness,
more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort.
An Augean stable of metallic filth.

D.H. Lawrence

#6. Oh! Your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even to my foe, and will not have become poorer thereby.
There is comradeship: may there be friendship!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Divine departed as she would have desired, in a mixture of fantasy and sordidness.

Jean Genet

#8. He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you.

Andrew Ashling

#9. When your're both finished trying to frighten each other away with the sordidness of your pasts, can you help me, please?

Melina Marchetta

#10. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

#12. He was full of love - for himself, first, and his prowess - such a fine power at his age. Then, he felt a degree of love for her -

Norman Mailer

#13. I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

Carroll Shelby

#14. Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

Salman Rushdie