Quotes About Cruel

Nature could be both wondrous and cruel, creating immense beauty and then offsetting it with ugliness.

I marvelled, not for the first time, at the cruel complacency of ordinary things. But no, not cruel, not complacent, only indifferent, as how could they be otherwise? Henceforth, I would have to address things as they are, not as I imagine them, for this was a new version of reality.

You hurt me more than I deserve, how could you be so cruel? I loved you more than you deserved, why am I such a fool?

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt...doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Your mother, was she clear in her mind until the end?' he asked, knowing it was invasive and cruel to do so. Because his mother had died years before her body did, Brunetti was unable to judge which sort of death was worse and for whom. In all these years, although he had asked many people who had lost a parent, he had never had an answer that would decide the case for him.

else it is—is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

Then Lamia breath'd death breath; the sophist's eye, Like a sharp spear, went through her utterly, 300 Keen, cruel, perceant, stinging: she, as well

You hurt me more then I deserve, how can you be so cruel? I love you more then you deserve, why am I such a fool?

Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.

Alexandra's fat bare toes, corned and bent by years in shoes shaped by men's desires and cruel notions of beauty

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

That's one of therapy's cruel aspects: the therapist is unique to you, but not the other way around. How unfair. It's the most unequal relationship you could imagine.

He was Instructor Reno Alberto, a five-foot-six man-mountain of fitness, discipline, and intelligence. He was ruthless, cruel, unrelenting taskmaster.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.

I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.

The Devil had granted my wish to watch him sleep, but granted it in his usual cruel fashion, making a pain of a pleasure. Yet pleasure there was. I still desired to watch over him, be his dragon against Botts.

Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.