#slime

But he knew life, its foulness as well as its fairness, its greatness in spite of the slime that infested it, and by God he was going to have his say on it to the world. Saints in heaven - how could they be anything but fair and pure? No praise to them. But saints in slime - ah, that was the everlasting wonder! That was what made life worth while. To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud- dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment. ↗

— Jack London

#beauty

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman. ↗

— J. F. Powers

#blood #body #bread #change #create

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. ↗

— Aeschylus

#clear #drinking #drinking water #find #good

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!! ↗

— Marc Almond

#any #being #celebrity #die #enjoy

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#bureaucracy #evaporates #every #leaves #new