Quotes About Harshness

Where there were no other insects than the fleas our dogs carried in their thick coat, if even they had not be frozen to death.

I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

When she gave me back the notebook, she said, 'You're very clever, of course they always give you ten.' I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: 'I don't want to read anything else that you write.' 'Why?' She thought about it. 'Because it hurts me,' and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

Poor trustful creatures! If I could have done it then, I would gladly have killed them rather than picture them starving on that floe out on the Ross Sea, or eaten by the exultant Killers that cruised around.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

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

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it.

nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

When has the Light ever been gentle to innocence?

Cold dark deep and absolutely clear,element bearable to no mortal,to fish and to seals…

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.

The tarn was surrounded by tough alpine grasses and thorn bushes with berries of candy pink and cough-drop red. At that camp the party's fire looked choked and small. And when the moon came out its light shone on and through the blue ice cliffs fastened to the black rock faces of surrounding mountains. The night breeze came as an icy downdraught carrying a scent of hostile nothingness, as if it blew all the way from the stars.

But often the storm raged, sleet or wind or heavy snow, and Jonas did not come for several weeks at a time. The coldest winter in years, men said, the coldest in the time of man.

The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention.

CHAPTER XXXVIII 'YOU ARE SO SEVERE

Harsh ways are taught by harshness.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

Black-birds fatten best in hard weather

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

For the longest time, I just felt like I had to be really, really harsh to be taken seriously as a CEO.

In the harshness of the world of technology - in which feelings do not count anymore - the hope for a saving love grows, a love which would be given freely and generously.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.