Quotes About Harshness

No pleasure but meanness

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.

cuando el comercio se muestra en su desnudez espantosa. Las cortinas metálicas tienen rigideces agresivas

This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny

It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness

He seldom spoke so harshly in public.

The landscape of his poetry was still the desert...

Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen, said Buckingham; the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.

Life is beautiful, just very unfair.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes -- disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

There is something about the desert.… There is something there which the mountains, no matter how grand and beautiful, lack; which the sea, no matter how shining and vast and old, does not have.

There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere. But when I think of where I want most to be, finally, it's the old hot dusty eyeball-searing head-aching skin-blistering throat-parching boot-burning bloody goddamned desert again. Why?

There is something about the desert that the human sensibility cannot assimilate, or has not so far been able to assimilate. Perhaps that is why it has scarcely been approached in poetry or fiction, music or painting;

The cactus of the high desert is a small, grubby, obscure and humble vegetable associated with cattle dung and overgrazing, interesting only when you tangle with it in the wrong way. Yet from this nest of thorns, this snare of hooks and fiery spines, is born once each year a splendid flower. It is unpluckable and except to an insect almost unapproachable, yet soft, lovely, sweet, desirable, exemplifying better than the rose among thorns the unity of opposites.

The cactus of the high desert is a small grubby, obscure and humble vegetable associated with cattle dung and overgrazing, interesting only when you tangle with it the wrong way. Yet from this nest of thorns, this snare of hooks and fiery spines, is born once each year a splendid flower. It is unpluckable and except to an insect almost unapproachable, yet soft, lovely, sweet, desirable, exemplifying better than the rose among thorns the unity of opposites

The Fremen must be brave to live at the edge of that desert. By all accounts. They compose poems to their knives.

You see me, Father? I am a desert creature.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

Being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed especially when the rest of the world could be so mean

But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.