Sternness Quotes

“In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Behind the sternness of his voice there was a shackled anger, and beneath that shackled anger there was a buried pain.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“They look stern at first, do a lot of scowling, but behind their eyes, once you get them talking, there's a hurt, docile quality, possibly related to past wrongs done them, a quality I associate with the thunked-as-kids: Long ago the world turned on them in some unexpected and unpleasant way, and they are, not unreasonably, expecting that it could happen again at any moment.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone