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It's much easier to be cruel than one might think. — Jonathan Safran Foer

If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings. — Jayne Bauling

Please Lady ... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish."
"You most certainly were."
"You are cruel, Evanna. — Darren Shan

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it. — Rick Astley

The world of modeling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous. — Cindy Margolis

Force does not necessarily have to be cruel; it is strongest when it does not take advantage of its power, and is kindly. — Vicente Blasco Ibanez

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it. — Kiersten White

It was cruel, though, to want to, and tempting, so I'd become an expert at almost. — Ali Smith

It's not that people are mean or cruel, they're just busy. — Austin Kleon

Never be cruel to anyone; no one deserves it. — Debasish Mridha

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel. — Abraham Lincoln

Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

That really hurt me- I tried to help those children but people just wanted to make fun of me.It was cruel and unnecessary. — Michael J. Jackson

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad. — Roger Ailes

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. — Gary Larson

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? — Johnny Rich

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding. — Isobelle Carmody

it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame. — Alexandre Dumas

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak. — Kate Forsyth

Fate was cruel, but it was fate. — Edward Rutherfurd

Money is a cruel thing. It's the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love. — Rainbow Rowell

Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. — Donna Tartt

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder. — W.E.B. Du Bois

This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm. — Seanan McGuire

Hesitation is a cruel taskmaster; it breeds weakness the same way filth breeds germs. — Ray Dacolias

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else. — Delta Burke

It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to. — George R R Martin

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke. — Mahatma Gandhi

Men, in general, are so treacherous, so envious, and so cruel that it is a comfort to find one who is only weak. — Nancy Mitford

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. — Ovid

I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world for twenty years. A more cynical, cruel creature it's hard to find. — Mo Hayder

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. — Anatole France

Looking back, I realize it was the first time I experienced how cruel life can be. How swiftly a simple act can change in. — Sue Whiting

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse. — Kate Morton

The more you knew and understood about the world, the more aware you were that it's a cruel and shitty place. Ignorance really is bliss. — Stephen "Steve-O" Glover

It was so much easier when I don't want anything. Not getting want you want want can make you cruel. — David Levithan

These were the moments I wished I were dead, when I was too weak to do anything about it. It was nature's cruel irony, stringing me along. — Pepper Winters

Now you're just being cruel.'
'I like pushing your buttons.'
'You'd enjoy it more if you undid them first. — Michelle Hodkin

It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel. — Grace Livingston Hill

History is not just cruel. It is witty. — Charles Krauthammer

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. — Kenneth Branagh

I hate you! (Artemis)
Don't keep saying that, Artie. It's cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh. — Laura Kreitzer

Life - life - how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy. — Aimee Dostoyevsky

Time can be a cruel teacher. It doesn't wait for you to learn a lesson, to fully absorb it before it lurches on to the next one. — S.K. Falls

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in ... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is. — Antonio Banderas

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. — Mark Twain

It's a cruel world, don't you think? — Cornelia Funke

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises. — Nujood Ali

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you. — Lois Leveen

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac. — Cassandra Clare

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. — Bill Watterson

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them. — Rachel Field

If he were to put his heart in my hand, he might never find it again. And I'm not cruel enough to let him break while he tries to heal the impossible. — Courtney C. Stevens

It doesn't matter how cruel a person is, they didn't deserve to die in that way. — Khali Raymond

I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up. — Saul

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins

Choosing between your kind and another species wasn't cruel. It was necessary. — Rick Yancey

It is much easier to be kind than cruel. — Debasish Mridha

Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. — Stephenie Meyer

Life. We'd long known it was cruel. — Nova Ren Suma

He ... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break
chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. — Emily Bronte

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. — Jean-Paul Sartre

This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it. — Sherwin B. Nuland

If I was being cruel, you'd know it. Let go of my hair and trust me to satisfy you. — Olivia Cunning

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me. — Catherynne M Valente

For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. — Richard Whately

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not. — Samuel Beckett

But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay. — William Blake

Dawn is a precious time of day. It reminds us that every glory must fade, and that all things, cruel or sweet, come to an end. — Simon Higgins

Life is a cruel teacher. It punishes you first, and then gives you the lesson. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. — David Levithan

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff? — Marian Keyes

He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it. — Sarah Waters

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it. — Darlene Cates

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor

Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom. — Desiderius Erasmus

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish. — George R R Martin

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it. — Lana Del Rey

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn. — Charlotte Lamb

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. — Ellen Langer

In a way I wanted to stop myself. It was cruel, I knew that, but right and wrong were somewhere else. — Tim O'Brien

Youth runs away from old age, because it is its most cruel enemy — Giacomo Casanova

Africa is cruel ... it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds — Elspeth Huxley

Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where you have to be. (Vadim) — Aleksandr Voinov

This is the way photography can be cruel ... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing. — Katy Grannan

Human beings are cruel creatures. And what we don't understand, we tamper with until we destroy it. — Suzanne Young

It's not the world that's cruel. It's the people in it. — Nora Sakavic

People, by and large, weren't cruel, weren't heartless; it was simply that they couldn't believe anything could happen — Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

To be a joke, it was too cruel;
But to be true, it was absurd ...
My mind seemed to have got the fuel
It needed to become alert. — Tatyana K. Varenko

It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee — Munia Khan

I think it's outrageously cruel to keep a puzzle that they know is missing a single piece. — Neal Shusterman

Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel. — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive. — Jan Egeland

But, I didn't have a clue what it was really like, how terribly cruel and mean and judgmental people could be — Siobhan Vivian

Nothing was more cruel than a heart made of flesh and blood, because it knew what gives pain. — Cornelia Funke