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Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her. — Khaled Hosseini

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain. — Rick Warren

Don't be unkind." I'm used to ordering him around, but this sounds like a request — Victoria Aveyard

Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind. — Thomas Bastard

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will. — Thomas Nagel

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind. — Philip Larkin

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right. — William, Saroyan

I daresay idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true, isn't it. — Agatha Christie

God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other? — Abdu'l- Baha

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. — James Agate

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. — Benjamin Disraeli

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough ... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds. — James Nesbitt

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him. — Charles Spurgeon

It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind, — Winston S. Churchill

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness. — Vachel Lindsay

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself. — Henepola Gunaratana

An unkind remark is like a killing frost - no matter how much it warms up, the damage is already done. — Suzanne Woods Fisher

I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant. — Karen Armstrong

Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy. — April Haney

Nothing turns me off faster than a guy being unkind. — Sarah Wynter

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest. — Horace

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one. — David Lynch

I will always miss the person I
thought U are. But not the selfish,
unkind, insensitive and heartless
person U turned out to be. — Lily Amis

I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face. — Ogden Nash

War is most unkind to the memories of survivors — Thabo Katlholo

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. — Dante Alighieri

Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one's self away for cheap. — Ron Baratono

History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it. — Salman Rushdie

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness. — Suzanne Collins

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness
that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence. — Mark Gatiss

Unkind words live best in silence. — Paula Dickerson

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell. — Anne Beatts

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind. — Lou Reed

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. — William Shakespeare

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind. — Sarah McLachlan

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for — Al Capone

The kindest word in the world is the unkind word left unsaid. — Ashwin Sanghi

The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. — William Shakespeare

I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind. — Alex Ebert

Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will be kind to you. Not everyone will agree with you. That does not mean you have to be unkind in return. — Brianna Wiest

This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind. — Dante Alighieri

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind. — David Rockefeller

Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children. — Tilda Swinton

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion. — Byron Katie

This is what ageing is, she thinks as she follows Isabelle into the store, these random unkind moments that catch you when you least expect them. — Khaled Hosseini

Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it. — Khaled Hosseini

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts. — Rachel Johnson

Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute. — Richelle E. Goodrich

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind. — Thiruvalluvar

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. — Eileen Brennan

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore. — Neil Diamond

When I'm called unkind ... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me. — Rachel Johnson

Because the world is unkind, and eventually, it will swallow you whole, turning your hopes into shattered dreams, and your dreams into nightmares. — Mia Asher

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart. — Charles Spurgeon

Unkindness is being unkind to oneself.-Fida Fayez Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. — Hosea Ballou

Evil to him who evil thinks,.... — Karen Harper

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds — Peter L. Bernstein

A brave man is seldom unkind. — Pretty Shield

You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. — Mignon McLaughlin

Mankind is unkind, man. — Dave Collins

Never say an unkind word to anyone. — Doug Melvin

About the great preacher. I wanted to see him through foreign eyes, kind and unkind, loving and unloving, before I looked on him with my own. — Elif Shafak

To be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness. — Cameron Dokey

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome. — Jedediah Berry

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. — Barbara Sher

An unkind describer might refer to her face as like a party nobody's turned up to. — David Mitchell

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind. — Kristin Hersh

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day! — Avijeet Das

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on. — John Hawkes

Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child. — Valerie Bertinelli

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Were those exact words said: 'I no longer love you'?"
"No."
"No. Hardly anybody ever says it like that, do they? They simply become unkind. — Helen Oyeyemi

Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. — Robin Hobb

Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive. — Chuck Palahniuk

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all. — Edna O'Brien

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most. — Ashleigh Brilliant

People are unkind sometimes without meaning to be. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me suspicious of everyone. — Mary Anning

It is so unkind--' 'Perhaps. But sometimes a compulsion comes over one to speak the truth! — Agatha Christie

If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor
as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind. — Erica Jong

We cannot say that you are spiritually advanced if you are unkind to those around you. — Frederick Lenz

It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone. — Minka Kelly

Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
But more when envy breeds unkind division:
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion. — William Shakespeare

I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind. — Robert Johnson

Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind — Tennessee Williams

In nature there's no blemish but the mind.
None can be called deformed but the unkind. — William Shakespeare

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time — Kahlil Gibran

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. — David Attenborough

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. — Al Capone

When someone is unkind, respond with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort. — Jane Austen

I do not like to be unkind. — David Rockefeller

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye. — Jerry Lee Lewis

Think me not unkind and rude
That I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood
To fetch his word to men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson