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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
This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.
— Jennifer Arnett
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
— Aaron Eckhart
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.
— Walt Mueller
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
— Leo Tolstoy
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
Which is colder, the hand or the gun?
— Anthony Liccione
There was nothing left for the dollar, nothing except a cold, cruel end.
Until, that is, the bank robbers burst into the back room. — T.R. Whittier
Until, that is, the bank robbers burst into the back room. — T.R. Whittier
Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy.
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
— Leo Rosten
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
— J.K. Rowling
The leopard is a cruel lover. His tenderness breaks the gazelle's heart.
— Aleksandr Voinov
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
Now it seems cruel, abusive even, but this all happened before the invention of self-esteem, which, frankly, I think is a little overrated.
— David Sedaris
Truth can be cruel. Yet it is the only thing of value.
— Pierce Brown
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
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
I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.
— Elizabeth Berg
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
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
— William Ralph Inge
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
— Fannie Hurst
I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!
— George Bernard Shaw
So we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it.
— J.I. Packer
The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.
— Norman Thomas
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
There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.
— Lee Penn
Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.
— Eleanora Duse
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
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
Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
— Johnny Rich
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
— Walter Savage Landor
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
— Richard Paul Evans
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
— Rudyard Kipling
Cruel is the strife of brothers.
— Aristotle.
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Indeed, love is beautiful, yet at the same time, it is a cruel punishment, starker than death.
— Khaddam Ahmed Khan
The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.
— Hannu Rajaniemi
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
— Neil Gaiman
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
— Carrie Fisher
Love is cruel as the grave.
— Ouida
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
...the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another...
— Leo Tolstoy
I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height
teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature. — Cory Doctorow
teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature. — Cory Doctorow
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Depression is genetic, specifically the product of another's cruel genetics. — Beryl Dov
Depression is genetic, specifically the product of another's cruel genetics. — Beryl Dov
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
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
Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.
— Florence Nightingale
Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death, jealousy is as hard and cruel as Sheol (the place of
— Anonymous
As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.
— Horace
The truth is cruel but right.
— Hiromu Arakawa
Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.
— Mengistu Haile Mariam
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
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
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
— Rosa Luxemburg
When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.
— Jean Plaidy
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
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
— Christopher Isherwood
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
Imagination is a cruel master to the jealous man.
— Tom Piccirilli
Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.
— Justin Theroux
From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.
— Robert Harris
...sometimes the truth is cruel.
— Stephen King
Life is a cruel teacher. It punishes you first, and then gives you the lesson.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
The most cruel and disobedient people will be saved, if there is one who would stand before God for His people
— Sunday Adelaja
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
— George R R Martin
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
— Lemuel K. Washburn
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
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
I'm absolutely sure that the cruel truth without love is a lie.
— Nikita Mikhalkov
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
— Dorothy Rowe
The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.
— Billy Graham
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
— George Santayana
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.
— Jacqueline Carey
There is justice in an insanely cruel world.
— Carol Plum-Ucci
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
— Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Time is the cruelest force of all.
— Cixin Liu
Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust ...
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
— Amandla Stenberg
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
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