Gray Quotes

“The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.”
― Pete Wentz, Gray

“People don't understand us. They don't understand me. They think it's so black and white, that he makes me miserable and that I should be with someone else and that I deserve something else.
But it's not black and white at all. It's gray. It's a never ending world of gray.”
― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I grab my bag and open the door, trying to ignore him. But ignoring Gray Porter is like ignoring an elephant in a tutu. A really hot elephant-in a very manly tutu.”
― Anne Eliot

“Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name. You can have mine."
"Your name?"
"Marry me. Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be called Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Like Oz, life is full of beauty and horror. Whether you’re in the magical realm or the so-called civilized one, you can look at the world around you and see both things at almost any time. But what being in Oz taught me is that no matter how horrific a situation may be, no matter how devastating or scary or chaotic, there is still always beauty in the colors of it all, even in the grays. As I look back on the last four years of my life, on everything that led me to the place where my life changed forever for a second time, I might think I wasted too many crucial years perceiving my world through a lens that leeched the color from everything I set my eyes on, but now I can forgive myself for my mistakes and maybe even be grateful for the trials I’ve faced. After all, a rainbow only comes out when it rains. The most spectacular rainbows are set against a backdrop of a half dark sky where gray clouds hover and rain batters the surface of the earth, but the horizon is clear and bright—a pure, radiant blue surrounding a shining golden sun. When I’m in Oz, that rainbow is who I am—a vivid, radiant spectrum of colors with a clear bright landscape ahead only made more rich-hued and vibrant by the darkness that lies behind it.”
― Garten Gevedon, Dorothy in the Land of Monsters

“On a whim, I told Mom once about seeing the world as a series of grays, and she told me I was depressed. This didn’t feel like that. This emptiness was different.”
― Kayla Krantz, What I Did

“He woke before dawn and watched the gray day break. Slow and half opaque.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Recognize, each story filled differently. As a plethora, where each substance more or less explored. Each field of knowledge [something] to gain from the careful mixing of paint/colours.

Where substances are in the millions, and each substance a plethora in itself.

Potentiality.”
― Xilaristw

“It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

“On some fond breast the parting soul relies,
some pious drops the closing eye requires;
even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
even in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
― Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

“Real, she is learning, is a slippery thing, not a solid black line but a shape with soft edges, a great deal of gray.”
― v e schwab

“I'd started to put on my boots, but that terrible gray morning alarmed me. Sometimes I feel as if we're living inside a tomb, a large, spacious one for lots of people. I looked at the world wreathed in gray Murk, cold and nasty. The prison is not outside, but inside each of us.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Gray and overcast sky hovers above
Seeming ready to drip it’s woes on us”
― Richard L. Ratliff

“Just wait until you get to be my age. If there’s a hair that isn’t gray, it’s an achievement. Getting old means getting ugly.”
― Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice

“Hearken to my speech, boy - all Golden-Folk be as we ere long. Once we shone brightly, gliding through the leaves of the forest and the brush of the desert, plain to eye only a flurry of green and gold, green and gold. One day now and one day soon, we all fade to gray.”
― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous

“The Author of authors generously gives us our own air to breathe, this land that we walk on, and gifts in abundance to make a difference among the living.”
― Reena Doss

“Even if it turns gray, this paper mâché world still needs our splash of colors.”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“One must first allow the presence of gray to take root,
then release it to weigh its absence before being certain about anything.”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“A billion colors yet still we lie knotted up in tones of gray.”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“There are many sayings of things that are seen and unseen, but fewer still are those that speak of those many gray in-betweens.”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“Gray is the knowledge that nothing in this world exists in solid colors.”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“Justice can’t be assessed within humanity’s frail rainbow of sight, it must be determined under the billion shades of gray upon a forgotten line that exists between wrong and right. #onart”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“Only gray voices remained after the war had drunk its fill of blood. #onprose”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“The wicked walk carelessly by day, sure of their getaway disguises; victims hide in gray, their wings spread wide under blue skies. #onpoetry”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“We are dust from the beginning and ashes in the end; a cycle of completion, no distinction, gray destination. #onphotography”
― Reena Doss, Gray: We Hide Our Colors Within

“It is a gray day only because we have assumed the absence of color verses the masking of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You have to learn how to live in the gray -Dr. Anika Warren.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler

“Nobody wants to take a stand on one side or the other. Too much gray. Too much making excuses for their personal reasons and individual ways of thinking."
"What's wrong with, like, finding out the whole story, asking people for the whole context? What's the rush to categorize things as right or wrong, good or bad? For what? So we'll have an excuse to judge them quicker? Conserve our compassion for someone who deserves it more?”
― Michelle Stimpson, Sisters with a Side of Greens

“[She] glanced at the gray, damp sky and wondered if love made you believe that even the grossest days were beautiful.”
― Gretchen McNeil, Four Letter Word