Harsh Quotes

475 quotes by 419 authors

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and… — Hunter S. Thompson
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant. — Henry David Thoreau
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh. — Lawrence Welk
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that… — H.G. Wells
The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. — Gregory Maguire
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart — Norman Mailer
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor.… — Matthew Woodring Stover
My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh... — Garth Nix
...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design,… — Charles Frazier
He was a romantic in his own harsh wayâ€¦yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all. — Stephen King
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust… — James Joyce
[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through… — Audre Lorde
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not… — Frederick Buechner
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a… — Edgar Allan Poe
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. — Ian Fleming
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it. — Margaret Atwood
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply. — Marquis de Sade
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than oneâ€™s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? — Richard Matheson

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