Quotes about Cruel

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. Votes: 4

Cruel is the strife of brothers. Votes: 3

This Cruel Age has deflected me... Votes: 3

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema. Votes: 3

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. Votes: 3

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart. Votes: 3

Cruel to be kind means that I love you. Votes: 3

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief! Votes: 3

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made. Votes: 3

Cruel young men usually sit on their beds with their riding boots. Votes: 3

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. Votes: 3

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore. Votes: 3

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. Votes: 3

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Votes: 3

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it. Votes: 3

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. Votes: 3

Ringer is the perfect balance of what audiences want ot see me do. It's Cruel Intentions meets Buffy. Votes: 3

Where are you going? (Nykyrian) To get a drink and kill Cruel"not necessarily in that order. (Syn) Votes: 3

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. Votes: 3

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness. Votes: 3

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. Votes: 3

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces. Votes: 3

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn. Votes: 3

I must be cruel, only to be kind. Votes: 2

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. Votes: 2

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. Votes: 2

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. Votes: 2

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. Votes: 2

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. Votes: 2

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Votes: 2

The world of modeling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous. Votes: 2

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. Votes: 2

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. Votes: 2

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Votes: 2

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Votes: 2

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison. Votes: 2

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. Votes: 2

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?' Votes: 2

Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever. Votes: 2

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. Votes: 2

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. Votes: 2

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel. Votes: 2

Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion. Votes: 2

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour. Votes: 2

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. Votes: 2

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. Votes: 2

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. Votes: 2

A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends. Votes: 2

Aristocracy is always cruel Votes: 0

Aristocracy is always cruel." Votes: 0

Aristocracy is always cruel. Votes: 0

Terror made me cruel. Votes: 0

Kids are really cruel. Votes: 0

To revive sorrow is cruel. Votes: 0

Fear is cruel and mean. Votes: 0

But God is never cruel. Votes: 0

Certainty is a cruel mindset. Votes: 0

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Votes: 0

Triumph cannot help being cruel. Votes: 0

Life is cruel? Compared to what? Votes: 0

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . Votes: 0

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive. Votes: 0

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful. Votes: 0

God is either cruel or incompetent. Votes: 0

I am not cruel, only truthful. Votes: 0

We are not by nature cruel. Votes: 0

Love is cruel as the grave. Votes: 0

I'm a cruel man to myself. Votes: 0

Love is more cruel than lust. Votes: 0

A good thing can't be cruel. Votes: 0

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war. Votes: 0

Great men are never cruel without necessity. Votes: 0

Parties are a cruel kind of fun. Votes: 0

A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. Votes: 0

Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Votes: 0

Cultural relevance can be a cruel mistress. Votes: 0

It's a cruel world, don't you think? Votes: 0

Suffocation is a cruel way to go. Votes: 0

The bottom of the sea is cruel. Votes: 0

Sometimes questions can be more cruel than insults. Votes: 0

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. Votes: 0

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion. Votes: 0

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. Votes: 0

Conventions are often more cruel than the law. Votes: 0

An angry father is most cruel towards himself. Votes: 0

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. Votes: 0

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. Votes: 0

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind Votes: 0

We are cruel enough without meaning to be. Votes: 0

He who is not actively kind is cruel! Votes: 0

There is no beast more cruel than man. Votes: 0

War is cruel and you cannot refine it. Votes: 0

History is not just cruel. It is witty. Votes: 0

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind. Votes: 0

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? Votes: 0

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid. Votes: 0

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. Votes: 0

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are. Votes: 0

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind Votes: 0

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways Votes: 0

the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace. Votes: 0

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love. Votes: 0

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel. Votes: 0

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. Votes: 0

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness. Votes: 0

The only morality in a cruel world is chance. Votes: 0

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books. Votes: 0

There is no redemption in a cruel man's love. Votes: 0

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort. Votes: 0

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be Votes: 0

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love. Votes: 0

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Votes: 0

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. Votes: 0

You ought to try being cruel to some people. Votes: 0

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. Votes: 0

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine Votes: 0

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel. Votes: 0

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. Votes: 0

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. Votes: 0

But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons. Votes: 0

There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child. Votes: 0

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different! Votes: 0

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question Votes: 0

In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue Votes: 0

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men. Votes: 0

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ... Votes: 0

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. Votes: 0

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel. Votes: 0

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish. Votes: 0

Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others. Votes: 0

It's much easier to be cruel than one might think. Votes: 0

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world. Votes: 0

Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you. Votes: 0

I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is. Votes: 0

Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone. Votes: 0

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. Votes: 0

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job. Votes: 0

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. Votes: 0

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be. Votes: 0

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. Votes: 0

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be? Votes: 0

Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel. Votes: 0

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility. Votes: 0

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered. Votes: 0

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. Votes: 0

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel. Votes: 0

Nature is cruel and pitiless, so are successful states and people Votes: 0

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another. Votes: 0

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. Votes: 0

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact. Votes: 0

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. Votes: 0

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel. Votes: 0

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing. Votes: 0

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child. Votes: 0

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth. Votes: 0

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel. Votes: 0

Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention, Votes: 0

how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling Votes: 0

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive. Votes: 0

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me Votes: 0

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind. Votes: 0

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak. Votes: 0

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. Votes: 0

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel. Votes: 0

He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel. Votes: 0

Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean. Votes: 0

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world. Votes: 0

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Votes: 0

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter! Votes: 0

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret. Votes: 0

Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel. Votes: 0

Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire. Votes: 0

Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them? Votes: 0

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. Votes: 0

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master. Votes: 0

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line. Votes: 0

What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God. Votes: 0

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing Votes: 0

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. Votes: 0

this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him Votes: 0

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. Votes: 0

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not. Votes: 0

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse. Votes: 0

There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements. Votes: 0

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful. Votes: 0

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation. Votes: 0

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. Votes: 0

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. Votes: 0

So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke. Votes: 0

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature Votes: 0

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness Votes: 0

Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb.. Votes: 0

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul. Votes: 0

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I. Votes: 0

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high. Votes: 0

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel. Votes: 0

She was not used to being cruel, but he had taught her how. Votes: 0

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel. Votes: 0

How cruel my suffering is,"”no one is more talkative than I am! Votes: 0

Racism is not real, it's made up, it's cruel, it can be stopped. Votes: 0

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance. Votes: 0

It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful. Votes: 0

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. Votes: 0

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache. Votes: 0

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. Votes: 0

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer. Votes: 0

Why have all the pieces joined together to create such a cruel fate? Votes: 0

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids. Votes: 0

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. Votes: 0

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. Votes: 0

The world of modelling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous. Votes: 0

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one. Votes: 0

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel. Votes: 0

Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. Votes: 0

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress. Votes: 0

How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this? Votes: 0

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless. Votes: 0

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals. Votes: 0

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools. Votes: 0

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid. Votes: 0

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. Votes: 0

What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one Votes: 0

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel. Votes: 0

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough. Votes: 0

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. Votes: 0

The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them. Votes: 0

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. Votes: 0

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel. Votes: 0

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. Votes: 0

My skin is soft, but my heart is cruel, and my bite is deadly. Votes: 0

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends. Votes: 0

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls. Votes: 0

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. Votes: 0

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. Votes: 0

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. Votes: 0

Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals. Votes: 0

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. Votes: 0

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate. Votes: 0

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide. Votes: 0

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. Votes: 0

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. Votes: 0

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. Votes: 0

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself." Votes: 0

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. Votes: 0

I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel. Votes: 0

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them. Votes: 0

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no. Votes: 0

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel. Votes: 0

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction. Votes: 0

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. Votes: 0

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. Votes: 0

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. Votes: 0

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. Votes: 0

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them. Votes: 0

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other Votes: 0

Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it." Votes: 0

...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason... Votes: 0

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog! Votes: 0

It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out. Votes: 0

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. Votes: 0

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually. Votes: 0

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. Votes: 0

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday. Votes: 0

There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven. Votes: 0

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding. Votes: 0

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another. Votes: 0

Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return. Votes: 0

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? Votes: 0

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. Votes: 0

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it. Votes: 0

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. Votes: 0

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains. Votes: 0

Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings. Votes: 0

I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same. Votes: 0

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. Votes: 0

Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. Votes: 0

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Votes: 0

I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up. Votes: 0

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. Votes: 0

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots. Votes: 0

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Votes: 0

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others? Votes: 0

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating. Votes: 0

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place. Votes: 0

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. Votes: 0

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. Votes: 0

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. Votes: 0

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. Votes: 0

(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop. Votes: 0

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! Votes: 0

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. Votes: 0

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow. Votes: 0

I hate you! (Artemis) Don't keep saying that, Artie. It's cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron) Votes: 0

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. Votes: 0

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Votes: 0

Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul Votes: 0

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. Votes: 0

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! Votes: 0

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready. Votes: 0

Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel. Votes: 0

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises. Votes: 0

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, Votes: 0

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel. Votes: 0

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing. Votes: 0

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness. Votes: 0

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it? Votes: 0

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel. Votes: 0

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. Votes: 0

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey. Votes: 0

"ŽIt is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Votes: 0

First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality. Votes: 0

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place. Votes: 0

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. Votes: 0

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. Votes: 0

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind Votes: 0

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it. Votes: 0

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. Votes: 0

The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. Votes: 0

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. Votes: 0

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? Votes: 0

We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist. Votes: 0

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds Votes: 0

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. Votes: 0

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later. Votes: 0

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. Votes: 0

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment. Votes: 0

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment. Votes: 0

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is. Votes: 0

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. Votes: 0

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me. Votes: 0

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others. Votes: 0

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. Votes: 0

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live. Votes: 0

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? Votes: 0

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even. Votes: 0

Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation. Votes: 0

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. Votes: 0

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. Votes: 0

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. Votes: 0

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me. Votes: 0

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific. Votes: 0

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time? Votes: 0

Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. Votes: 0

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done Votes: 0

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth. Votes: 0

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. Votes: 0

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! Votes: 0

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too Votes: 0

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it. Votes: 0

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. Votes: 0

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. Votes: 0

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd. Votes: 0

For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality. Votes: 0

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Votes: 0

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. Votes: 0

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. Votes: 0

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is. Votes: 0

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. Votes: 0

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart. Votes: 0

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence. Votes: 0

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. Votes: 0

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. Votes: 0

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. Votes: 0

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath. Votes: 0

Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that. Votes: 0

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Votes: 0

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey. Votes: 0

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust... Votes: 0

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. Votes: 0

Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away) Votes: 0

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back. Votes: 0

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward. Votes: 0

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master. Votes: 0

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. Votes: 0

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other. Votes: 0

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope. Votes: 0

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them. Votes: 0

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh. Votes: 0

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. Votes: 0

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy. Votes: 0

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. Votes: 0

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Votes: 0

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you. Votes: 0

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. Votes: 0

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel. Votes: 0

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. Votes: 0

He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel. Votes: 0

Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? Votes: 0

Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel? Votes: 0

It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to. Votes: 0

In fact unrestrained capitalism is quite cruel and the cost is on the individual human, on his or her grace. Votes: 0

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Votes: 0

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! Votes: 0

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. Votes: 0

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt Votes: 0

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. Votes: 0

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! Votes: 0

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna. Votes: 0

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? Votes: 0

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. Votes: 0

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? Votes: 0

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair. Votes: 0

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well. Votes: 0

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge. Votes: 0

Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. Votes: 0

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. Votes: 0

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty. Votes: 0

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible. Votes: 0

Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair. Votes: 0

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. Votes: 0

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta) Votes: 0

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. Votes: 0

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. Votes: 0

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. Votes: 0

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac. Votes: 0

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. Votes: 0

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others. Votes: 0

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. Votes: 0

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you. Votes: 0

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. Votes: 0

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. Votes: 0

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time. Votes: 0

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. Votes: 0

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. Votes: 0

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty Votes: 0

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do. Votes: 0

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. Votes: 0

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. Votes: 0

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Votes: 0

I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel? Votes: 0

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. Votes: 0

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life! Votes: 0

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. Votes: 0

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. Votes: 0

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. Votes: 0

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few. Votes: 0

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. Votes: 0

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it. Votes: 0

No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy. Votes: 0

Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. Votes: 0

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. Votes: 0

A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel. Votes: 0

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. Votes: 0

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is Votes: 0

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. Votes: 0

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? Votes: 0

When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this. Votes: 0

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life. Votes: 0

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me. Votes: 0

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil. Votes: 0

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart. Votes: 0

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. Votes: 0

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel. Votes: 0

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be. Votes: 0

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women. Votes: 0

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter. Votes: 0

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Votes: 0

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me! Votes: 0

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low. Votes: 0

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. Votes: 0

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this. Votes: 0

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it. Votes: 0

That really hurt me- I tried to help those children but people just wanted to make fun of me.It was cruel and unnecessary. Votes: 0

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view. Votes: 0

Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. Votes: 0

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe. Votes: 0

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it. Votes: 0

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home. Votes: 0

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. Votes: 0

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. Votes: 0

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. Votes: 0

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. Votes: 0

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. Votes: 0

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon Votes: 0

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy. Votes: 0

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman. Votes: 0

To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel. Votes: 0

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. Votes: 0

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors... Votes: 0

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel. Votes: 0

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard. Votes: 0

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I Votes: 0

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving. Votes: 0

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake. Votes: 0

I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted. Votes: 0

Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars! Votes: 0

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family. Votes: 0

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me. Votes: 0

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid. Votes: 0

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world. Votes: 0

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. Votes: 0

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. Votes: 0

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. Votes: 0

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time? Votes: 0

I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.' Votes: 0

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power. Votes: 0

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them. Votes: 0

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power." Votes: 0

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce. Votes: 0

-"You won't like me if I'm cruel." -"I don't like you now." -"We don't lie." -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to. Votes: 0