Brutal Quotes

417 Brutal quotes by 368 unique authors

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun… — Milan Kundera
Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom… — Lauren Kate
T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us. The sound… — S.A. Bodeen
You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip. — Margaret Mitchell
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when… — James C. Collins
The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not. — Jennifer Donnelly
In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas?… — Orhan Pamuk
I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel. — Vladimir Nabokov
I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je… — Vladimir Nabokov
If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and… — Jackie Morse Kessler
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man. — Pete Doherty
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison
Bingo pup. It's a lesson best learned early. They're all afraid of us." He strolled over to Derek. "You're trying to be a good kid,… — Kelley Armstrong
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it… — Jack London
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… — Matt Taibbi
...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,… — David Foster Wallace
It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing. — Yann Martel
Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality… — Boyd Rice
She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over… — Margaret Mitchell
The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs. — Hunter S. Thompson
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, — Deborah Harkness
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics… — Donna Tartt
But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a blazing afternoon sun,… — Linda Howard
Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You are a tiny… — Holly Black
I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I… — Elwyn Brooks White

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