Shabby Quotes (5 quotes)

“Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: beautiful, beauty, death, die, grow, mean, old, shabby, time, tragedy, wrinkled, young, youth

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“It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: be-happy, feel-good, feel-happy, fell, food-for-thought, great, happiness, hard, hardest, inadequate, israelmore-ayivor, joy, lazy, life, pappy, rejoice, shabbily, shabby, sluggard, sluggish

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“Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,
Its slow lit fuse that burns holes
In the shabby shroud of death forever.”
― Scott Hastie

tags: absolute, burn, burns, certainty, death, death-and-dying, forever, fuse, holes, joy, poetry, poetry-quotes, shabby, shroud, slow, spiritual-quotes, spirituality, true, wisdom

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“This casual neglect, a lack of care and worry, helped him feel easy in this quiet and leisurely part of the city.”
― David Hewson, The House of Dolls

tags: casual-neglect, easy-going, easy-life, homely, homely-environment, shabby, shabby-chic

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“It was small and shabby, but very clean, with the kind of cleanliness that spoke of poverty.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

tags: clean, cleanliness, house, marra, nettle-and-bone, poverty, pride, shabby, t-kingfisher

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