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the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel. — Wayne C. Booth

I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings. — David Sedaris

The world was a merciless place. Hard and cruel. Except when you found someone to trust and love. Life, however fleeting, possessed meaning then. — Sophie Jordan

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later — Christie Golden

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. — Terry Pratchett

Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it. — John N. Gray

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life. — Kent Nerburn

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact. — Stephan Jenkins

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one. — Mildred D. Taylor

Life may be cruel at certain moments; but we will always help us hand in hand. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life's cruel trick. — Natalia Jaster

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. — Stephen King

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel. — Noah Gordon

Risk is part of the game. — Victoria Aveyard

There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel. — Laura Wiess

Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship. — Christopher Earle

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

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world. — Rita Mae Brown

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

Never would I become so dependent on a man I couldn't make my way in the world, no matter what cruel blow life delivered! — V.C. Andrews

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything - and this is the most cruel law - continually gets worse. — Thomas Bernhard

I would rather be kind and lose everything than cruel and gain many things. — Debasish Mridha

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me. — Ben Carson

Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment. — Camron Wright

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. — Melina Marchetta

It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world. — Woody Allen

Life is cruel? Compared to what? — Edward Abbey

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

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death. — Ann Brashares

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line. — Carrie Fisher

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. — Robert Jordan

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite? — Stephen King

How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope. — Pierce Brown

Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics.
(Press X to thanklessly toil your life away) — Yahtzee Croshaw

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. — Lisa Kleypas

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake. — Jacqueline Carey

If you don't want to take risk, life would be cruel to you. — Sunday Adelaja

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

The life is cruel death to me without you. — Veronica Franco

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation. — John Updike

fate has a cruel sense of humor — Christopher Paolini

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus — Rohinton Mistry

Do I have to celebrate our engagement every year for nothing? I don't need practice, you know. It's starting to become cruel — Hilary Grossman

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth. — Ruskin Bond

But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times. — S.A. Tawks

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. — Grant Morrison

Military life is hard, even cruel - especially for the kids. — Tucker Elliot

Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths — Ben Oliveira

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price. — Oriana Fallaci

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place. — Matthew Inman

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? — Sandra Chami Kassis

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle. — Joseph Stalin

If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie. — Wataru Watari

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

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon — Joyce Meyer

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. — Stephen Fry

But it is the repetition, from all walks of life, that slowly destroys, turns the looking-glass into a mirror, distorting or true, both cruel. — Christine Brooke-Rose

Life has a cruel way of making us confront the things we dread. — Pragat Kasana

Yet I questioned not why destiny does play a cruel melody at times for I knew that each note had a purpose within the symphony of life. — Raneem Kayyali

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. — William Penn

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this. — Cesar Millan

Hope could be a cruel bitch — Julia London

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. — Rosa Luxemburg

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. — Nancy Mitford

If you can't be liked being kind, then be hated being cruel. — Joshua Teya

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love. — L.J.Smith

Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare. — Hugh Howey

Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it. — John Knight

Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final. — Corinne Michaels

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later. — Daymond John

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

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. — Norman Mailer

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. — Barbara Pym

Life is so long, and too hard, and then it ends so cruel and sudden! — Margo Lanagan

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can. — Sarah Kane

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it. — Silje Akselberg Iversen

Sometimes life can be as cruel as to end as a word break up — Jai Prakash

I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work. — Jonathan Evison

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty — Shashi Deshpande

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

A careless word may kindle strife,
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A timely word may lessen stress,
A loving word may heal and bless. — Anonymous

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough. — Jose Saramago

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

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life! — Horace

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home. — Madeleine Albright

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save. — Cassandra Clare

They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment. — Louis L'Amour

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