Sardonic Quotes
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![Frank Herbert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1591018335i/58._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
― Dune
― Dune
![Thomas Ligotti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651866983i/128466._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”)”
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![Oakley Hall](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1421367187i/44545._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.”
― Warlock
― Warlock
![Grant Morrison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1658691226i/12732._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...”
― Doom Patrol, Vol. 2: The Painting That Ate Paris
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...”
― Doom Patrol, Vol. 2: The Painting That Ate Paris
![Elizabeth Gaskell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1223499865i/1413437._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.”
― My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories
― My Lady Ludlow and Other Stories
![Mike Resnick](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1324507257i/54475._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“Don't worry about it. If I'm wrong, Security is monitoring me every second."
"That just means they'll know who to charge with your murder," said Forrice.
"Are you always this optimistic?"
"I have to be an optimist," explained Forrice. "I won't have anyone to tease if they kill you.”
― Starship: Mutiny
"That just means they'll know who to charge with your murder," said Forrice.
"Are you always this optimistic?"
"I have to be an optimist," explained Forrice. "I won't have anyone to tease if they kill you.”
― Starship: Mutiny
![Margaret Weis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1713963172i/869._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“And he enjoyed listening to Caramon's gossip. Raistlin enjoyed proving to his own satisfaction that his fellow mortals were fools and idiots, while Caramon took immense pleasure in bringing a smile - albeit a sardonic smile - to his twin's lips.”
― Brothers in Arms
― Brothers in Arms
![Anthony Powell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1331081008i/9947._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had introduced her to an unexpected terrestrial paradise.”
― A Buyer's Market
― A Buyer's Market
![Sergei Dovlatov](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1546784531i/88655.jpg)
“- Господь милостив, - тихо произнесла бабка.
Дед нахмурился. Сдвинул брови. Затем наставительно и раздельно
выговорил:
- Это не так. Зато милостив Беглар. Жаль, что он разбавляет напареули.”
― Собрание сочинений в трех томах. Том 1. Наши
Дед нахмурился. Сдвинул брови. Затем наставительно и раздельно
выговорил:
- Это не так. Зато милостив Беглар. Жаль, что он разбавляет напареули.”
― Собрание сочинений в трех томах. Том 1. Наши
![Jean Lorrain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1260771669i/529372._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Against a set of desolate scenery, amid spectral crags and livid mountains of ash, beneath the funereal daylight of slopes illuminated in blue, she personified the spirit of the witches' sabbat. Morbid and voluptuous, sometimes with extenuated grace and infinite lassitude, she seemed to carry the burden of a criminal beauty, a beauty charged with all the sins cf the multitude. She fell again and again upon her pliant legs, and as she outlined the symbolic gestures of her two beautiful dead arms she seemed to be towing them behind her. Then, the vertigo of the abyss took hold of her again, and like one possessed she stood on point, holding herself fully erect from top to toe, like a spike of flesh and shadows. Her arms, weighed down just a few moments earlier, became menacing, demoniac, and audacious. Twisting like a screw, she whirled around, like a winnowing-machine - no, like a great lily stirred by a storm-wind. Clownish and macabre, a nacreous gleam showed between her lips... oh, that cruel and sardonic smile, and the two deep pools of her terrible eyes!
Ize Kranile!”
― Monsieur De Phocas
Ize Kranile!”
― Monsieur De Phocas
![Mordecai Richler](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1227583751i/114539._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.”
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![Ali Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620558954i/68992._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It's so warm it's almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I've never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It's never sentimental. It's generous, but it's sardonic too. And whenever it's sardonic, a moment later it's generous again.”
― How to be Both
― How to be Both
![Philip K. Dick](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633698608i/4764._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Sidney's never makes a mistake, he said to himself. We know that, too. What else can we depend on?”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
![Grayson Perry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1639512843i/486695._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“We live in an age where photography rains on us like sewage from above.”
― Playing to the Gallery
― Playing to the Gallery
![Jeanette Winterson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561070665i/9399._UY200_CR60,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our behaviour.”
― Frankissstein: A Love Story
― Frankissstein: A Love Story
![Robert Frost](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1605640483i/7715._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.'
'I should have called it
Something you somehow haven't to deserve.”
― North of Boston
They have to take you in.'
'I should have called it
Something you somehow haven't to deserve.”
― North of Boston
![Steven Erikson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1219169436i/31232.jpg)
“But,’ she continued, ‘the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indifference …and I well know that taste, L’oric. Ask any orphan, no matter how old they are now, and they will tell you the same. We all sucked at that same bitter tit.”
― The Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 1
― The Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 1
![August Strindberg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651760439i/6815._UX200_CR0,62,200,200_.jpg)
“Se her, mine brødre, en menneskeskjebne blant mange andre, og erkjenn at et menneskes liv kan ta seg ut som en dårlig spøk!”
― Inferno
― Inferno
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