Cruelty Quote by T. S. Eliot Download Open image “Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.” — T. S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cruelty Inspirational Love
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. — Ludovico Ariosto Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever. — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
![“the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18e/t-s-eliot-633_art_the-ordinary-man-s-experience-is-chaotic_93688.jpg)
