Gradgrinds Quotes & Sayings

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality. — Ethan Hawke

Being with a friend in great pain is not easy. It makes us uncomfortable. We do not know what to do or what to say, and we worry about how to respond to what we hear. Our temptation is to say things that come more out of our own fear than out of our care for the person in pain. Sometimes we say things like 'Well, you're doing a lot better than yesterday,' or 'You will soon be your old self again,' or 'I'm sure you will get over this.' But often we know that what we're saying is not true, and our friends know it too.
We do not have to play games with each other. We can simply say: 'I am your friend, I am happy to be with you.' We can say that in words or with touch or with loving silence. Sometimes it is good to say: 'You don't have to talk. Just close your eyes. I am here with you, thinking of you, praying for you, loving you. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Showing charity towards others is the biggest lesson we can
teach our children to guide them in their future on this planet. — Simin Hashemizadeh

Unbelievable. Every girl at this college would cut her frickin' arm off to help me out. But this one? Runs away like I just asked her to murder a cat so we could sacrifice it to Satan. — Elle Kennedy

Life was groovy, it was fun; it couldn't change in a jiffy.
It dawned upon me that Life is a Sine Curve, and it is nothing but iffy. — Rajat Mishra

Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in both private and in public, take on life or death and collectively create the world we live in. — Mac MacKenzie

Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. — Jerry Spinelli