40k Grimdark Quotes & Sayings

You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world. — Rumi

There's no arguing, no needling, no discussion. It is quiet and awkward and terrifying. — Luchia Dertien

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too. — Sally Kellerman

God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will. — Aaron Gillespie

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom. — Graham Greene

I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time — Alexandra Kollontai

I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Relax enough, and your body becomes so familiar with the cradle-rocking rhythm that you almost forget you're moving. And once you break through to that soft, half-levitating flow, that's when the moonlight and champagne show up: "You have to be in tune with your body, and know when you can push it and when to back off," Ann would explain. You have to listen closely to the sound of your own breathing; be aware of how much sweat is beading on your back; make sure to treat yourself to cool water and a salty snack and ask yourself, honestly and often, exactly how you feel. What could be more sensual than paying exquisite attention to your own body? Sensual counted as romantic, right? — Christopher McDougall

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilised Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. — Rudyard Kipling

I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that, in the developing world, the key is not the kind of government - communist, capitalist, democratic, dictatorial - but the degree of government. That absence of government is what we are watching these days, from Libya to Iraq to Syria.
("Why they still hate us, 13 years later," Washington Post, 09/05/2014) — Fareed Zakaria