Cruel Quotes · Page 21

“Strange things happened to them . . . some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.”

— John Steinbeck

A tactic of cruel people is to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

— Anonymous

“How can someone be cruel to this chick? It’s like picking a fight with a chipmunk.”

— Victoria Scott

“I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

— Rachel Dolezal

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.

— Bill Watterson

“How people are often merciless on those they love the most”

— Maggie Nelson

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Life is so cruel. It shows you happiness, then whisks it all away, and you're left with nothing but memories and broken…

— Anonymous

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom…

— Sarah Kane

“Life is hard. It’s cruel sometimes. It’s merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another.”

— Julianne MacLean

“It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished…

— Gail Carriger

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening…

— Donella Meadows

“My heart is not brave or big. It is not cruel either. It is not strong at all. I keep it within…

— Rebecca Ashe

“...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

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is…

— Martin Samuel

“[Toby] reflected that being cruel sometimes makes you rich and powerful, but it always makes you ugly.”

— Timothée de Fombelle

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

— John Steinbeck

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

— Albert Bandura

Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.

— Sam Horn

You must learn that to endure cruelty is to become cruel yourself

— Bleach

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

“Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.”

— Michael Cunningham

“Life may be cruel at certain moments; but we will always help us hand in hand.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.”

— Elizabeth Berg

Me being dark-skinned, that was like a big thing. Growing up, I hated myself. It was, like, weird. Kids are cruel.

— Tierra Whack

“The cruel-hearted love upon the wind and dash feelings until none are left.”

— Joel T. McGrath

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

— Anonymous

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

— Jet Black

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.

— Diego Forlan

“It was so much easier when I don't want anything. Not getting want you want want can make you cruel.”

— David Levithan

Don't lead someone on, then lose them along the way. It's cruel. Nobody deserves that.

— Wizy Mari

The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.

— Grant Shapps

Softness is not weakness. It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel.

— Beau Taplin

The world of modeling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous.

— Cindy Margolis

“Happiness can be a cruel thing in the face of someone else's grief.”

— Sasha Gould

He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

— Lord Byron

“Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.”

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

What seems cruel and heartless to one is common sense for another.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

“In other words, life is hard, even cruel – but it’s also what you make of it.’ Putting”

— Dean Koontz