Browsing Topic Best Dirty World Quotes

All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears – you don’t believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise – you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair – you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it’s all about in Christ’s name.

Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.

It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.