Brutal Quotes

417 Brutal quotes by 368 unique authors

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed… — Isadora Duncan
I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood… — Nicole Krauss
I can't face losin' ya, Riley. Yer all I got left in this world.” That brutal honesty again. He'd peeled away more armor, and this… — Jana Oliver
Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike. — Luanne Rice
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal — Keith Richards
I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into… — Deb Caletti
When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but… — Danielle Steel
It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. — Malcolm X
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure. — Francoise Sagan
She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain,… — Jennifer Donnelly
These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and… — Garth Stein
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love — William Butler Yeats
Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose — Elena Ferrante
I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably… — Yukio Mishima
Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the… — Ruta Sepetys
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,… — H. L. Mencken
He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the… — Jim Butcher
All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was… — Lauren Kate
But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge… — Lauren Oliver
I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our… — James Frey
The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are. — Paolo Giordano

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