Top 32 Cruel Beauty Quotes
#1. It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
#2. They've got, she spat the word, 'style. Beauty. Grace. That's what matters. If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.
Terry Pratchett
#3. You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved you, because none of them ever knew you
Rosamund Hodge
#4. The sun rises over the Grand Canyon, igniting rocks that have been there for two billion years before we were born and will likely remain two billion years after we're gone. My heart aches with the cruel and unimaginable beauty of it. We are nothing. We are everything.
Sarah Ockler
#5. Salle. The white man and the red man struck hands and entertained each other during three days. Then, to the admiration
Mark Twain
#6. They keep telling me the coolest people are crazy - so I'm not worried.
Zanib Mian
#7. I don't hate you," I said, and I almost believed it.
Rosamund Hodge
#8. Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back in her proper place," and congratulated herself. The happiness of the evil-minded is black.
Victor Hugo
#9. Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida
#10. This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.
Rick Yune
#11. Nature could be both wondrous and cruel, creating immense beauty and then offsetting it with ugliness.
Lorraine Heath
#12. Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way.
Kate Morton
#14. Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.
Douglas Preston
#15. Love isn't always clean and pretty--sometimes it's messy, cruel, and confusing. And sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But then, the beauty of love is that it's very strong, and when it's real, it's worth it.
Heather Lyons
#16. The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#17. Revising objectives is smart because it stops you throwing good money after bad.
Lee Child
#18. I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.
Jane Lotter
#19. God is such a cruel god
for making you so wonderful,
and for making me so weak.
Sade Andria Zabala
#20. Well, I'm already hoping there could be a dinner where you don't try to stab me with your fork," he said.
"You might need to make your peace with disappointment.
Rosamund Hodge
#21. Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
Roger Ebert
#22. Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
Vince Vaughn
#23. The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.
Susan Sontag
#24. Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.
Maya Angelou
#26. When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place ... but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!
Naoyuki Ochiai
#27. She persisted when I resisted. And thank God for that. Because the number of storms I needed to go through before appreciating the way the wind whipped through her hair was one to many. Now, I'd move mountains to make her mine. Rain or shine.
J. Raymond
#28. Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.
Kate Cann
#29. My cruel fate hath warr'd with me in vain
Life, glory, worth, and all unmeasur'd skill
Beauty and grace, themselves in me fulfill
That many I surpass, and to the best attain.
Benvenuto Cellini
#30. We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
George R R Martin
#31. how cruel i was to myself. giving you credit for my warmth simply because you had felt it. thinking it was you who gave me strength. wit. beauty. simply because you recognized it. as if i was already not those things before i met you. as if i did not remain all these once you left.
Rupi Kaur
#32. It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice, but also one of great beauty, silvery, curved, dancing with light.
Peter Carey
