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Quotes About Cruel

As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
People are ruthless, man.
~ Kat Dennings
How strange this silent longing for death, as if you could make the sun not come up, the world's wheeling and wheeling its seasons like a cruel continuation of stubborn force.
~ Ada Limón
I still should want to watch the movie and enjoy it. Certain actors can play grotesque bad guys, yet they still have a connection to the audience. We still enjoy them as performers. They do cruel deeds, they're monsters, but we enjoy their monsters because when they're on screen we known something exciting will happen.
~ Quentin Tarantino
nationalism is a cruel epidemic of evil that is sweeping over the human world of the present age
~ Rabindranath Tagore
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
~ Molly Ivins
Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
~ Rick Astley
If the press see you looking normal they can suddenly be 'oh, she's got a spot on her face, she's having a bad day'. That can be quite cruel.
~ Jennifer Ellison
Rationally, I knew these fears were ridiculous. There were no signs, unfortunately, and I would never blame anyone for another person's suicide. But if everyone felt that way, there wouldn't be this cruel stigma, would there?
~ Jennifer Ashton
Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.
~ Jemele Hill
And Heyst, the son, read: Of the stratagems of life the most cruel is the consolation of love—the most subtle, too; for the desire is the bed of dreams.
~ Joseph Conrad
It was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage.
~ Joseph Conrad
Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town more populous than some continents and in its man-mad might as if indifferent to heaven's frowns and smiles; a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough there for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough there to bury five millions of lives.
~ Joseph Conrad
Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh and cruel. But that's why there's us. Champions. It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.
~ Joss Whedon
powerful blow from a practiced boxer can stop an opponent's heart, it is said. It's a cruel blow but it can be thrown easily if you have the strength and the skill and the will to do such lethal hurt, and if your opponent has no skills of self-defense. Carefully
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.
~ Judith McNaught
It isn't depression, or anxiety, though it can sometimes appear as a symptom of these better—known conditions. Often, it emerges with cruel ferocity as a chronic disorder completely unto itself. Its destructive impact on an individual's sense of self is implied in its very name—depersonalization.
~ Daphne Simeon
La misión de CRUEL es servir y preservar a la humanidad, a cualquier precio. Somos, efectivamente, "buenos".
~ James Dashner
inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe.
~ James E. Lovelock
themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable … in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about.
~ Doris Lessing
Arthur Dent, you are not merely a cruel and heartless man, you are also staggeringly tactless.
~ Douglas Adams
Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. The heart is perverse, and it is cruel. I hate the heart and seems to hate me.
~ Douglas Coupland
What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful—yes, and cruel! And one thing more—youth is vulnerable.
~ Agatha Christie
What do most people mean when they say that ? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that ! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful-yes, and cruel ! And one thing more-youth is vulnerable.' Hercule Poirot
~ Agatha Christie