This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
You hurt me more than I deserve, how could you be so cruel? I love you more than you deserve, that why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
One came to the war all over gold, like a girl. Poor fool! it did not save him from cruel death. — The Iliad Copy Share Image
The amount of cruel people in this world is actually very disappointing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Demanding perfection from an imperfect being is such a cruel irony of our world.” — Yuvraj Sandhu Copy Share Image
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can… — Deborra-Lee Furness Copy Share Image
“Do I have to celebrate our engagement every year for nothing? I don’t need practice, you know. It’s starting to become cruel” — Hilary Grossman Copy Share Image
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“In a cruel manner of speaking, this young woman may well have lost her head before she was born; it is certainly… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We used tough methods to show what's wrong and what's right. Against those who didn't understand, we led a tough and even… — Ramzan Kadyrov Copy Share Image
You say oh girl its a cruel world. But I can't help myself! I had to harden my heart and swallow my… — Jade Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, the world is not that sophisticated. A lot of it is very crude, cruel, and barbaric. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
“They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a stiff, I can't possible be cruel. But they're wrong.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Well, that’s that. Goodbye cruel world. Be sure to fuck thyself on the way out, you mean-assed son of a whore.” — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful. — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“Pero los hombres hemos creado a Dios a nuestra imagen y semejanza. Por eso es tan cruel, malo y vengativo.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How could God be so cruel as to create a Muslim woman with so much flesh and so little sex appeal?” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“If the world insists on being cruel, steal the stage, and make it your own.” — Paul Glyph Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“I'm absolutely sure that the cruel truth without love is a lie.” — Nikita Mikhalkov Copy Share Image
“This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.” — Sean Gabler Copy Share Image
“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.” — Puffin Copy Share Image
O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype. — Amybeth McNulty Copy Share Image
“Because how could I rest, when the world is so cruel and hard, and yet might be so sweet.” — Sarah Walters Copy Share Image
