Grumps Cafe Quotes & Sayings

When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this - that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked. — J.C. Ryle

Why is the measure of love loss? — Jeanette Winterson

How we squander our sorrows, gazing beyond them
into the sad wastes of duration,
to see if maybe they have a limit. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Having rebound sex to cure a heartbreak is like drinking alcohol to cure a hangover. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours. — Thayer David

Leah, go be with your husband," I say. "Before he realizes that he's still in love with me. — Tarryn Fisher

First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me. — Gore Vidal

my chest tightens so much it physically hurts. The last image I see when I glance back is the door closing as Jackson's head falls into his hands. Now I know what it feels like to lose your heart. — Corinne Michaels

Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave their marks on one's face and bearing. A few lines on the face and a few gray hairs coupled with the idiosyncrasies an actor adopts throughout life help out round out the actor's personality. So far as I'm concerned, the older a character actor gets, the firmer his position is. — Strother Martin

Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad poetry spoken underwater. — Charlie N. Holmberg

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation. — Hafez

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism. — Dag Hammarskjold

Maybe, standing next to the obelisk of Ma'at, surrounded by the Sea of Chaos, we both realized that restraining ourselves from vengeance is what made us different from Apophis. Rules had their place. They kept us from unraveling. — Rick Riordan

This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy. — Charles Gounod

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins. — Craig Groeschel