Pitiless Quotes
37 quotes by 32 authors
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The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find…
— Cornelia Funke
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You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not…
— Marcel Proust
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We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of…
— Robertson Davies
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She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more than I can…
— Ann Aguirre
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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning…
— Isadora Duncan
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You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.…
— Terry Pratchett
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
— H. Rider Haggard
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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond…
— Helen Keller
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
— Bertrand Russell
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Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always…
— Michael Ian Black
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Against the beautiful and clever the successful,one can wage a pitiless war,but not against the unattractive
— Fad Ibra
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