Cruel Quotes · Page 19

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

— George Santayana

“Why did Thor send you back to middle school?” I asked. “That seems especially cruel.” She”

— Rick Riordan

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

— Molly Ivins

“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.”

— Kim Wright

“The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.”

— Kate Forsyth

“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.” —Adolf Hitler”

— Hourly History

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.

— Monica Lewinsky

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

— Robert E. Lee

“I take a cruel joy in seeing you tremble and writhe beneath my whip, and in hearing your groans and wails; I…

— Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

“To be a joke, it was too cruel; But to be true, it was absurd… My mind seemed to have got the…

— T.K. Varenko

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of…

— Rick Astley

“It’s going to hurt, because he led you on enough to break your heart, but not enough to feel guilty about breaking…

— Holly Riordan

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

— Brigitte Bardot

“I’m torn between deciding whether or not life is cruel. On one hand, it brought me you Yet it kept me from…

— Dawn Lanuza

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left…

— Haruki Murakami

“[...] I was created by cruel men. Not in a lab, not in a test tube, but through years of undeserved mistreatment…

— Steph Sweeney

It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain.…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“The world is a cruel mother, a matron of darkness, selfishness, greed, and misery. For most, their time suckling at her breast…

— Ed McDonald

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that…

— Richard Dawkins

“You've been pinning for him these last three years, God knows why. Admittedly he's gorgeous, but you're hardly the type to be…

— Anne Stuart

“between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the…

— David Sedaris

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the…

— Shannon L. Alder

“That pool is cruel deep out there, my friend. And the tight rope is set up really high. It takes strength to…

— Calvin W. Allison

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

— Nellie McKay

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

— Anonymous

What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.

— Laozi

“Death was both kind and cruel: the overture was pure torment for anyone involved, but the conclusion was merciful.”

— L.A. Witt

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel.

— Samuel Johnson

“A choice to do nothing was a choice to passively die at the hands of a cruel future. I”

— Bobby Adair

“that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-’n’-”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.”

— Sujata Massey

“True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.”

— Silje Akselberg Iversen

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

— Horace

This kind of life, wasn't meant for the good girl. Try as I might, in the end it's a cruel world.

— Anonymous

“Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate?”

— ichtys

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

— Nancy Sinatra

“Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.”

— Stephen Fry

“Now you're just being cruel." "I like pushing your buttons." "You'd enjoy it more if you undid them first.”

— Michelle Hodkin

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

— Hasdai ibn Shaprut