Quotes About Harshness

If a man in a smoking jacket in a coal-fire-heated library in his manor house in London can understand that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, then how can it be denied by a man pulling a sledge stacked with frozen meat and furs across an unnamed island, through the Arctic night under a sky gone mad, towards a frozen sea a thousand miles and more from any civilised hearth?

I don't have to answer to you," Adam said, instantly and harshly. He brushed his pants off like he'd just buried his mother.

We had known it would be hard to leave this island of women where on our skin the warm rain fell like pomegranate seeds, where we woke to birdcall and slept to the First Mother's singing, where we swam naked without shame in lakes of blue lotus. To exchange it for the human world whose harshness we remembered. But this?

I shall always remember that in this world one must expect no reward, that in this world there is neither honour nor justice. In this world one has to be cunning and cruel.

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Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

You can equate our music to childbirth. It's brutal and harsh, but there's still a beautiful thing occurring.

The humane aspects of Zoroastrianism probably accounted for its diminution as a faith, if not its failure. A religion needs harshness and hokum to succeed, and all Zarathustra taught was understanding the earthly elements, the turn of the year, the one God.

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go.

Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

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

The summer is cruel to its leaves, the fall to its colors, the winter to us.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

This is no world for gentle people

The harshness of a teacher is better than the reputed softness of the parent.

The cold was an enemy, yet it kept the tribes strong. The old did not suffer for long in such bitter winters. The weakling children perished quickly. His son would not be one of those.

I want to put my harshness into rap videos and create a new style.

Such an interesting English expression "dog eat dog", since dogs don't really eat dogs (dogs do eat shit, but that's another story).

Mother Nature wasn't really motherly. Mom said nature was more like a bipolar aunt who treated you kindly most of the time but, now and then, could be a real witch, conjuring killer storms and vicious animals, like big toothy mountain lions that, if given a

The mean things of this world had only one lesson-we are meaner than you'd ever imagine.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.