Quotes About Harshness

Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. Sadness, on the other hand, assumes we are in the know... The light of horror thus lost its harshness, and the world was bathed in a gentle, bluish light that actually beautified it.

Ya?am ne kadar ac?mas?z olursa olsun, mezarl?kta hep huzur vard?r.

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.

The desert wasn't mappable. It ate map-makers.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful - Sandor Clegane, The Hound. ASOIAF

Life is pitiless to the elderly.

Men reacted as they always did; some with an extreme of generosity, giving what little they could spare to strangers; others behaved with an equal and opposite extreme of harshness, demanding outrageous things in exchange. Honest men became thieves, honest women prostitutes, criminals became saints, all driven onward by an idea of what they were leaving behind.

Still, beauty can flourish in even the most inhospitable terrain.

I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war.

Mother Nature is the meanest of bitches, that's the sad truth.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

It really is a sign of appalling feebleness, I thought, if people fill their apartments with furniture belonging to past ages rather than their own, the harshness and brutality of which they are unable to endure. What they do, it seems to me, is surround themselves with the softness of the dead past that cannot answer back.

Men are too often harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.

Arizona is no place for amateurs.

Já reparaste como o mundo parece feito de pontas e arestas? Já chamei tua atenção para a escassez de contornos mansos nas coisas? Tudo é duro e fere.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Even in your kindness there is a cruel revelation. Life is cruel, never love.

He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.

But he was a hard man, Mrs Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him—(shivers) Like a raw wind that gets to the bone,

Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

I closed my eyes and listened to the waves. Thousands of fish out there, eating each other. Endless mouths and assholes swallowing and shitting. The whole earth was nothing but mouths and assholes swallowing and shitting, and fucking.