Cruel Life Quotes
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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
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 could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
— Ben Carson
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
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
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
(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
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
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. Love is a joke. And not even death is final.
— Corinne Michaels
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
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
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
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A timely word may lessen stress,
A loving word may heal and bless. — Anonymous
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