Quotes Tagged "cruel"

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.

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

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

Never be cruel to anyone; no one deserves it.

Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.

Nothing is ever certain.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind

You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you.

And I am so alone And I am alone here With the idea of ghosts And the idea of humanity, which is a cruel idea

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.

He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

He told me once it was cruel to give hope where none should be.

Gavin is just a kid. He hasn't figured out yet how cruel life can be. How it can take everything from you, dig in its sharp teeth and not let go. He still has hope. I can't tarnish that.

Whoever survived cruel situations, finds the strength of obedient faith.

Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.