Quote by Kerri Maniscalco

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“They say: it's a cruel world but I say: it's just a world, we define it with our actions and reactions..”

— Mariam Harmoush

“Thomas stood in the manacles, vibrating , overwhelmed with words he couldn't say. Didn't know if he knew how to say them, because they…

— Joey W. Hill

“The world isn’t as cruel as you take it to be.”

— Ryohgo Narita

“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart, which remained…

— Dean Koontz

“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one…

— Jean Hegland

“World is beautiful but it is dangerous place to live, there is so much evil behind a normal person.”

— John Art

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

— Philip Pullman

“And yet, and yet. This place exerts an elemental pull on me. There is no end of fascinations. People talk all the time, calling…

— Teju Cole

“Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and…

— Scott Westerfeld

“What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi