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Cruel Quotes (page 12)

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare? Herman Melville
George Sand quote: "The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine"
The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine George Sand
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it. Neil Gaiman
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. J. K. Rowling
The Chinese enjoyed the grim spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking that the world was anything else. J. G. Ballard
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when..."
I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight. Laurell K. Hamilton
George R. R. Martin quote: "Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's..."
Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel. George R. R. Martin
[He]... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. Emily Bronte
Neil Gaiman quote: "Love belongs to Desire. And Desire is always Cruel. -Old Man"
Love belongs to Desire. And Desire is always Cruel. -Old Man Neil Gaiman
Steven Wright quote: "Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?"
Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it? Steven Wright
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb. The nurse had chosen the forgetting way. Yet, as she stood there, she knew that years later she would be haunted by the sorrow in the face of that starveling child and that she would wish bitterly... Betty Smith
George R. R. Martin quote: "Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is..."
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. George R. R. Martin
I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over. Stanislaw Lem
Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will gaze, from the sand-hills, At the white, sleeping town; At the church on the hill-side— And then come back down. Singing: "There dwells a loved one, But cruel is she! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea. (from poem 'The Forsaken Merman') Matthew Arnold
I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore. Tom Robbins

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