Squalor Quotes

22 Squalor quotes by 21 unique authors

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl… — Diablo Cody
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to… — Ansel Adams
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor. — Seneca the Younger
She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity. — Nick Laird
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with… — Unknown Author
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for… — Seneca the Younger
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. — William Beveridge
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and… — Tom Waits
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget… — Tahir Shah
In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if… — James A. Baldwin
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need… — John W. Gardner
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… — Bill Bryson
Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw… — Richard Matheson
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with… — Jon Stewart
Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children… — E. M. Forster
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor. — Ayn Rand
Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even… — Jennifer Worth
We hate our squalor. — Andrei Platonov
I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor. — Harvey Pekar
Squalor spreads its hideous length through the carts and the asses' feet, squalor coils and reopens and creeps under barrow and heap of refuse.... — Hilda Doolittle

Who Wrote These Squalor Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Squalor Quotes as follows: