Harsh Quotes

475 quotes by 397 authors

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do… — Jon Krakauer
If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly… — Audre Lorde
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world… — Alan Moore
Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And… — David Foster Wallace
In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.… — Dani Shapiro
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. — Dave Eggers
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way. — Rick Riordan
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What… — Daisaku Ikeda
Weâ€™d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world. — Nicholas Sparks
There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not… — Ayn Rand
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern… — Dan Millman
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day
Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a personâ€™s true nature? — Jean-Dominique Bauby
You donâ€™t trust any man, Ephani. (Danger) And neither should you, little sister. Take a bit of Amazon advice. Ride him into the ground all… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can… — Mother Teresa

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