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Quotes About Unkindness

The future is hungry and unkind. It'll gobble you up, little girl. It will eat your heart.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.
~ Frederick Lenz
Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind, and this had only gotten worse in the years since she had been diagnosed with leukemia. Sadie didn't want Sam viewed through her sister's acute and often unforgiving lens.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
~ Sue Miller
You might have thought I'd worry about him, about causing him pain or at least embarrassment. I simply didn't. I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy. That makes you unkind. When I described myself as I was at that time to Daniel, I often said to him, "You wouldn't have liked me then.
~ Sue Miller
he wondered if this new way of speaking to one another, this unkindness that was now creeping into their words from time to time, was a sign of where they were headed.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Unhappiness breeds unkindness,
~ Katie Williams
The mad have unkind hearts.
~ Jack Kerouac
the inevitable and irrevocable consequences of their quiet cruelty. They were just kids, just girls then. They didn't understand that a single act of careless unkindness would have repercussions long after
~ T. Greenwood
When someone says they don't care if you're sexually satisfied and they don't care if you want to go to nice restaurants instead of car races, they're at least indifferent and unkind. He was nice when you were dating and until he got your dad's money.
~ Catherine Gildiner
Certainly we struggle as victims of other people's unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.
~ Larry Crabb
It concerns me that we use social media and public platforms to spread hate and say things that are just unkind and unwarranted.
~ Shibani Dandekar
One of the many things I regret is that I hurt so many people by giving them nasty nicknames, and above all that I was unkind to the children of celebrities.
~ Perez Hilton
In some ways, modern life has made us unkind. That unkindness has profound personal effects. And if we can build a kinder society, that would make life better for everyone.
~ Annie Lowrey
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal capacity for unkindness. And if, when, parents do embrace that, it reveals something very ugly to oneself.
~ Karyn Kusama
Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
~ Tamsin Greig
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
~ Varun Grover
This is how editor R. J. K. Law restates it: "The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him, is not to believe that he loves you.
~ Tim Chester
O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.
~ William Shakespeare
I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone—truly gone beneath the waves—I hated myself as I never have before.
~ Holly Black
I wasnt kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasnt sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that i would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone---truly gone beneath the waves---I hated myself as i never have before.
~ Holly Black
I wasn't kind Jude, not to many people, not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone-truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before.
~ Holly Black
I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone- truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before.
~ Holly Black