Harsh Reality Quotes

“Sometimes my own darkness scares me.”
― Heena Rathore P.

“Time is kind
just not kind enough!”
― Yarro Rai

“I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was to drop an atom bomb on a civilian population, not to save the environment. However, you must admit, the victors are never tried for war crimes.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Ah, I believe Schacht. Only too willingly; that’s to say, I think what he says is absolutely true, for the world is incomprehensibly crass, tyrannical, moody, and cruel to sickly and sensitive people. Well, Schacht will stay here for the time being. We laughed at him a bit, when he arrived, that can’t be helped either, Schacht is young and after all can’t be allowed to think there are special degrees, advantages, methods, and considerations for him. He has now had his first disappointment, and I’m convinced that he’ll have twenty disappointments, one after the other. Life with its savage laws is in any case for certain people a succession of discouragements and terrifying bad impressions. People like Schacht are born to feel and suffer a continuous sense of aversion. He would like to admit and welcome things, but he just can’t. Hardness and lack of compassion strike him with tenfold force, he just feels them more acutely. Poor Schacht. He’s a child and he should be able to revel in melodies and bed himself in kind, soft, carefree things. For him there should be secret splashings and birdsong. Pale and delicate evening clouds should waft him away in the kingdom of Ah, What’s Happening to Me? His hands are made for light gestures, not for work. Before him breezes should blow, and behind him sweet, friendly voices should be whispering. His eyes should be allowed to remain blissfully closed, and Schacht should be allowed to go quietly to sleep again, after being wakened in the morning in the warm, sensuous cushions. For him there is, at root, no proper activity, for every activity is for him, the way he is, improper, unnatural, and unsuitable. Compared with Schacht I’m the trueblue rawboned laborer. Ah, he’ll be crushed, and one day he’ll die in a hospital. or he’ll perish, ruined in body and soul, inside one of our modern prisons.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

“Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.”
― Yarro Rai

“All I knew that for all our art, for all our writing, for all our self-defense workshops, for all our banding together in our cities and oases, queer survival was still not guaranteed.”
― Chelsey Johnson, Stray City

“And if we took away Brian's salary at Schwab and your dad's little allowance, how much money would you have working part-time at that non-profit? Would you be able to afford Bermuda or your two-bedroom in SoHo? Are you more of an adult because two men are giving you the illusion of self-sufficiency?”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.”
― Ali Smith

“... I used to have a big dog, a rottweiler, to guard the place. One night I was working late, and he was outside barking in the snow. He wouldn't stop. Then he stopped. I went out ten minutes later with a lamp, and there was a ring of wolves eating my dog.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Wolves Eat Dogs

“Truth and Wisdom are always attractive and beautiful even when they are not attractive and beautiful, or mankind would not be seeking them so much despite the harsh reality they portrayed at times.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“You can never do enough or be enough for somebody with a huge void because the problem is not with you, the problem lies with them.”
― Germany Kent

“That first quarrel made a dreadful impression on me. I call it a quarrel, but it was not really a quarrel; it was merely a revelation the great gulf that lay between us. Our love was exhausted as soon as our desire was satisfied, and now we stood facing each other in our true relationship, which was of two completely alien and completely selfish individuals who only wanted to get the greatest amount of satisfaction out of each other.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“Sadly, how often did mankind heed a warning? Gadflies are often swatted unmercifully.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“There is no quick, instant method to master English. It's always going to take dedication and hard work. But there is one thing you can do right now to begin improving faster – fix the way you think.

My friend Hitomi Horiguchi (a life-coach I know in Tokyo) very rightly says, "If you fix your thinking, then your actions will also change."

Very true words.”
― Julian Northbrook, Master English FAST: An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English

“If somebody changes their tone about you it generally means that they have discovered or uncovered a truth about you that makes them not want to deal with you.”
― Germany Kent

“Don't play games if you can't afford to lose.”
― Germany Kent

“To be forgotten is the fear of all men, the root of unending evils- why we raise others to remember our names, in the hopes that they reach the same livelihood. The chance to atone for that loss is life’s fortune and greatest mistake.”
― Trent Lindsey, Those Wyrd and Wonderful

“To those who have everything, more will be given; from those who have nothing, everything will be taken.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Feeling guilty and demanding justice is a gun that can go both ways.”
― Simple Man, 20 Years Of Inner War: How porn defeated my porn addiction