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“Because it's too cruel to know that life is just one time and that we have no guarantee outside our faith in shadows -…

— Clarice Lispector

“Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your…

— Wendy Higgins Sweet Reckoning

“and anyway it’s just the same old story -- a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I want to…

— Mary Oliver

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

— Ryohgo Narita

“Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.”

— The Oatmeal

“...because it requires the total surrender of my will and finally, ultimately, the wholesale destruction of my ego. That is hard. It I'm going…

— Valerie Martin

“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It might be a dungeon of suffering and pain full yet this life is worth living and this world is beautiful.”

— Jyoti Arora

“...but I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as…

— Nina Sankovitch

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

— Bret Easton Ellis

“You’d be a part of my life. My world. You’d get hard and cunning to survive, or you’d stay gentle and die.”

— C.D. Reiss

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse