Cruel world Quote by Isaac Marion

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil, and met that cold for…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“Those who made them did not desire strength or domination or hoarded wealth, but understanding, making, and healing, to preserve all things unstained.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily…

— Edward Bellamy

“I suddenly see the world as no longer viable: you are out there burning the crops with some new sublimate This morning you left…

— Adrienne Rich

“The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude.”

— Philip Pullman

“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”

— Ashim Shanker

“Passed me men and women ignited with sulfur, porters in calcium livery opening the jaws of hell, fame walking in crutches, dwindled by the…

— Henry Miller

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love…

— Henry Miller

“Here mankind discarded civilization as if it were an article of clothing and left behind every decent feeling: love; loyalty; simply everything. Here it…

— Schoschana Rabinovici