Quotes About Harshness

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.

Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.

Yes, Lewis concludes, God may at times treat us harshly, but he has never treated us with contempt.

Meanwhile, we chip ice, shovel snow, thaw pipes, scrape windows. Winter lasts forever on this god-forsaken world.

I think about it quite a bit, actually, that look on his face. I think about a lot of things. I think about the first time I ever saw a birch tree; about the last time I saw Julian; about the first sentence that I ever learned in Greak. ?????? ?? ????. Beauty is harsh.

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed. (The Sacred Journey) Only when we enter our wound will we discover our true glory.

Is there anything more harsh in this life than to be misjudged, and have one's motives entirely misunderstood?

Anyone, Eliza is thinking, who describes dying as "slipping away" or "peaceful" has never witnessed it happen. Death is violent, death is a struggle.

The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness;

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

An earth hard as iron lay locked beneath a sky whose mottled clouds spit snow like ashes sucked up a chimney and then dispersed with the smoke.

Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.

And I might, in order to justify myself, have told her that I loved her. But the confession of that love, apart from the fact that it could not have told Albertine anything new, would perhaps have made her colder to myself than the harshness and deceit for which love was the sole excuse. To be harsh and deceitful to the person whom we love is so natural!

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Cuando los adultos se aplican, superan siemrpe un nuevo umbral de crueldad

craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely. "Would you have

Muhte?em bir do?al manzara pembe bir perdedir. Perdeyi aç; orada en korkunç hayat mücadelelerini göreceksin! Do?an?n güzelli?i, do?an?n gaddarl?klar?n? unutmam?z için Tanr?'n?n bize verdi?i bir rü?vet olabilir mi?

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

El mundo exterior era duro, implacable con los débiles, no cumplía nunca sus promesas, y el amor seguía siendo lo único en lo que todavía se podía, quizá, tener fe.

Lumea exterioar? era dur?, nemiloas? cu cei slabi, nu-È™i respecta aproape niciodat? promisiunile, iar dragostea r?mânea singurul lucru în care, poate, ne mai puteam înc? încrede.

And greed will breed harshness and cruelty. And wealth is a maze to confuse. Once a person is warm and well-suppered, how much of such wealth can they use?

Punishments were severe, their harshness underscored by the fact that they were written in blood. At the very least, petty thieves were beaten with whips. Those convicted of stealing property...routinely lost an army or a leg. the most serious offenders were tied to a post, where, as it was stipulated, 'his body shall be taken as a target,' with arrows.