Cruel Quote by John Updike Download Open image “We are cruel enough without meaning to be.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cruel Cruel Meaning Enough Meaning
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
It is very easy for us to go, you know, "I am being cruel to be kind," when really we are just ... being… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I think the reason we're cruel sometimes is that we're afraid we're going to like something.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.” — Tegan Quin Copy Share Image
“Even the cruel feel pain. And even the cruel can change. I hope this changes him. He could do so much, if only he… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
