“Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Shelter from the Storm
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Bob Dylan523
American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941Related quotes
“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose (1898), Book X
“Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor.”
X. 173–174 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
"On Truth" in Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918), p. 53
1910s
Context: The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived. Huxley laughed the devils out of the Gadarene swine. Not the laws of the United States but the mother-in-law joke brought the Mormons to surrender. Not the horror of it but the absurdity of it killed the doctrine of infant damnation. But the razor edge of ridicule is turned by the tough hide of truth. How loudly the barber-surgeons laughed at Huxley—and how vainly! What clown ever brought down the house like Galileo? Or Columbus? Or Darwin?... They are laughing at Nietzsche yet...
“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
Jacques Ellul book Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Vintage, p. 41
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
“We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.”
Simonides of Ceos (-556–-468 BC) Ancient Greek musician and poet
From the Cenotaph at the Isthmos
Variant: Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Source: Lord of Chaos