Cold Reality Quotes

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

The world is a very troubled, very chaotic place. It's a very cold place. It's a very unjust and unfair place in many ways. [As a moviemaker] I have very limited ability to have an impact over all that.

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold.

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.

Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

The life of truth is cold.

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.