Shit Quotes

“Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where money-making is concerned, nothing compresses the time frame needed to leap from my-shit-just-sits-there-until-it-rains poverty to which-of-my-toilets-shall-I-use affluence like an apprenticeship with someone who already has the angles all figured out.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“We all have shit on our shoes. We've just got to realize it so we don't track it into the house.”
― Karl Marlantes, What It is Like to Go to War

“One-and-twenty sorts of birds,” said Ser Kyle.
“One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings,” said Ser Maynard.
“You have no poetry in your heart, ser.”
“You have shit upon your shoulder.”
― George R.R. Martin, The Mystery Knight

“Shit, meet Fan. Fan, this is Shit.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“People always talked about the good clean smell of fresh sweat. They had to make excuses for it. They never talked about the good clean smell of fresh shit. There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit - I mean after drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odor of a beer shit like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you realize that you were really alive.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“A growl came from the back of my throat. I looked like shit. I felt like shit. I wasn't ready to deal with her shit.”
― Tijan, Fallen Crest Public

“A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that [...] 78.6 percent of the ground beef contained microbes that are spread primarily by fecal matter. The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey agar, and so on. Behind them lies a simple explanation for why eating hamburger meat makes you sick: There is shit in the meat.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“Everyone steps in shit. They keep walking and it comes off.”
― H.M. Ward, The Arrangement 13: The Ferro Family

“Some people are so positive, that when they slip in dog poop, they pirouette”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“The basic formula of life... SURVIVE. EAT. SHIT. FUCK. BUY A HOUSE and DIE. It's all been scripted. But there's no need to see the second act. You already know how the play ends, don't you?”
― Andrew Armacost, The Poor Man's Guide to Suicide

“He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.”
― Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape

“We’re better together than we are apart. The American Dream has us looking out for ourselves even at the expense of our neighbors. That shit ain’t true, man.”
― Trevor D. Richardson, Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

“I thought a shit storm was coming, and I had no umbrella.”
― Barbra Annino, Bloodstone

“Don’t shout my friend; no one gives you the shit unless you make them.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours.”
― Don Roff

“It’s all a pile of shit,” he whispers to the darkness around him. “It’s all just one big pile of shit.”

Verner aka ‘Jens’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
― Steen Langstrup, The Informer

“Voy a escribir una mierda", habría de repetirse el escritor antes de empezar a escribir. Las críticas entonces pasarán de largo. En todo caso, el libro constituirá un logro si, en efecto, es una mierda. Y si alguien lo califica así, mejor aún. Los elogios también seguirán su derrotero, inocuos. Pues consciente de que se ha escrito una mierda, no habrá escritor que se los crea.”
― Eusebio Ruvalcaba, 52 tips para escribir claro y entendible

“His bowels, far greater alchemist than he had ever been, regularly performed the transmutation of corpses, those of beasts and of plants, into living matter, separating the useful from the dross without help from him. Ignis inferioris Naturae: those spirals of brown mud, precisely coiled and still steaming from the decocting process which they have undergone in their mold, this ammoniac and nitric fluid passed into a clay pot, were the visible and fetid proof of work completed in laboratories where we do not intervene. It seemed to Zeno that the disgust of fastidious persons at this refuse, and the obscene laughter of the ignorant, were due less to the fact that these objects offend our senses than to our horror in the presence of the mysterious and ineluctable routines of our bodies.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

“Trust me I know this shit, Don't fuck with me!”
― Jim Jensen

“Sim sighed. "like Ross always said: Wish in one hand,shit in the other,and see which hand fills up first.”
― Keith Gray , Ostrich Boys

“He smiled and as his lips parted, little bits of solid waste fell from them. Hellelujah, we can only be what we are, I thought and wondered if I was as repulsive to him as he was to me. I don't think so, because even though he literally wore a shit-eating grin, I sensed he was genuinely happy to see me”
― R.E. Vance, GoneGodWorld, Episode Two

“I knew I was in deep shit. I didn’t know how deep—just that I still hadn’t touched bottom.”
― Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke

“Everything changed after AIDS,” Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. “From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.”
― David Cronenberg, Consumed

“Get me your manager.” Dove held her head high and tried to seem older and more self-assured.

The teenager barely registered her request.

“Do it now. My friend here is about to crap his pants. Do you want to smell it?” Dove slapped her hands down on the counter, snapping the life into the girl. “Do you want to smell his shit?”
― Debra Anastasia, Fire in the Hole

“…there is, presumably, something in the very nature of shit that makes it so looooooved. And however much the theoreticians of popular culture try to explain why shit ought to be loved, the most attractive aspect of shit is nevertheless its availability. Shit is accessible to everyone, shit is what unites us, we can stumble across shit at every moment, step in it, slip on it, shit followed us wherever we go, shit waits patiently on our doorstep. So who wouldn’t love it! And love alone is the magic formula that can transform shit into gold.”
― Dubravka Ugrešić, Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia

“Hay algo especialmente terrible en el hecho de que te digan una y otra vez que tienes la vida más maravillosa del mundo y que ni siquiera así esa vida mejore y siga siendo una mierda.”
― Lionel Shriver, So Much for That

“Aus dem Tiefland des medialen Bullshits, der uns täglich umgibt, erhebt sich ein dampfender scheisshaufen wie eine stolze Bastion der Authentizät.”
― Florian Werner, Dunkle Materie: Die Geschichte der Scheiße

“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.”
― Don Roff

“When you become a celebrity, your shit becomes news.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Plans change, Iktomi said. Got a plan that doesn’t require explosives.

Are you confident in that? Mangas asked.

I’m a god, Iktomi replied. I’m always confident.

I’m a human, Mangas thought, and we know shit happens.”
― Brandon Nolta, Iron and Smoke