Cruel Quotes
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It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
— Aaron Eckhart
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
— Bertrand Russell
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
— Danielle Steel
We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
— Michelle Obama
Stolen hours in a decrepit barn with Isaac Hale didn't count; those times were hungry and empty and sometimes cruel, but never lovely.
— Sarah J. Maas
No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.
— Mildred D. Taylor
It's a cruel process, aging. Take my advice, dear, maintain your independence as long as possible.
— Jonathan Evison
It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
— Lemony Snicket
Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice, but also one of great beauty, silvery, curved, dancing with light.
— Peter Carey
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
— Rabindranath Tagore
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Strange things happened to them ... some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.
— John Steinbeck
In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.
— Rex Reed
This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm.
— Seanan McGuire
Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?
— Julie Anne Peters
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
— William Ralph Inge
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
— Arlen Specter
Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone.
— Sharon Gannon
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Evil is cruel;folly is deceptive;
together they are destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo
War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.
— Winston Churchill
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
— Nancy Mitford
We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.
— Tadeusz Konwicki
He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it.
— Sarah Waters
You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you.
— Amanda Stephan
Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.
— Alice Hoffman
Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.
— Russell Brand
I'm not being cruel when I am saying 'no'.
— Melody Devonish
Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave.
— Patricia Moyes
Who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension ...
— Edward Albee
He who is not actively kind is cruel!
— John Ruskin
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
Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?
— Marian Keyes
Hope could be a cruel bitch
— Julia London
I must be cruel only to be kind
— William Shakespeare
I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
— Danny DeVito
What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
— Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
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
So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...
— Deyth Banger
Why did Thor send you back to middle school?" I asked. "That seems especially cruel." She
— Rick Riordan
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.
— Norman Thomas
Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final.
— Corinne Michaels
I'm a mean, cruel person who doesn't deserve love.
— Sherry Gammon
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
— Jean Racine
Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture.
— Rohinton Mistry
That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change.
— Howard Jacobson
Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel. — Christina Engela
Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."~ A thought by Lessa ~ — Anne McCaffrey
I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.
— Jane Lotter
How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.
— Pierce Brown
For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.
— John Nardizzi
But without wisdom, imagination is a cruel taskmaster.
— William Paul Young
As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.
— Horace
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
Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust ...
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Terror made me cruel . . .
— Emily Bronte
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
— John Quincy Adams
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
— Johnny Rich
Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.
— Tegan Quin
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
— Claudio Magris
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,
— Carolyn Kizer
Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
— Zachary Quinto
I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
— L.J.Smith
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
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
— Aristotle.
It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people
— Charlotte Rogan
If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.
— Peter Zumthor
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But can love born of revenge avoid turning into cruel sport?
— Shintaro Ishihara
Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
— Terence Young
Those that were kind would never understand those that were cruel, and the cruel ones could never really respect kindness.
— Sarah Pinborough
Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
But love isn't always roses and rainbows and butterflies in your stomach. It's equally cruel and painful and the world's worst villain.
— J.A. Redmerski
Careful, boy," rumbled Gwyn. "You have your Laws and we have ours. The difference is only that we do not pretend ours are not cruel.
— Cassandra Clare
