Cruel Joke Quotes

#1. It's a cruel joke of the universe that the one person who makes me come alive is himself dead. And evil. His very existence defies all moral laws and all known laws of physics.

Kitty Thomas

#2. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line.

Stephenie Meyer

#3. For April Fools Day, someone played a really cruel joke on me. They stole ALL my mirrors and I had to go hours without seeing myself. I mean, I couldn't even do my daily affirmations. What kind of world is this? I tell you, it's artists like myself that really suffer.

James Franco

#4. She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke.

Alan DeNiro

#5. Liquor does this? Even after you're sober?" "A cruel joke, isn't it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.

Scott Lynch

#6. You know the moment when fate plays a cruel joke on you, rips the rug out from beneath your feet and laughs at you after you've fallen flat on your hind end? This was like that moment.

Casey L. Bond

#7. Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. And she realized that she still wanted Jared when all thoughts of passion were dead, when other consolation seemed like a cruel joke - that she wanted to be with him when the thought of being with anyone else was unbearable, when the thought of someone else touching her made her want to scream.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. One of the men, heavyset and balding, making a cruel joke about Putin.

Suzanne Brockmann

#10. There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

CeeLo Green

#11. I guess it was hard for him to look at the logic behind the draft lotteries, because that same logic had taken away his father. And, anyway, what's so logical about the day you were born deciding when you might die? That's just a cruel joke, as I see it.

A.S. King

#12. So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.

Jon Stewart

#13. There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

Charles Krauthammer

#14. I believe that life is a game, 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." She

Neil Gaiman

#15. Informers and stool pigeons are full of virtue, they should all be released and sent home - but how vile they are! Vile for all their virtues, vile even with all their sins absolved...Who was it who made that cruel joke about the proud sound made by the word "Man"?

Vasily Grossman

#16. It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

Kate Forsyth

#17. How could a homeless kid have a dad who was the god of abundance and wealth? Talk about a cruel joke.

Rick Riordan

#18. I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings.

David Sedaris

#19. I think I see it." I hoped I was looking in the right place. Constellations had always seemed like a cruel joke to me. How could someone take a few dots in the sky, turn them into an elaborate picture, and expect everyone to share their delusion?

Silvia Violet

#20. Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn't be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob

Stephenie Meyer

#21. What's the difference between Darling Cruel, the wind, and a vacuum? A vacuum only sucks. The wind only blows. But Darling sucks, blows, and swallows.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

Carrie Fisher

#23. The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.

John Berger

#24. The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

Claire Cameron

#25. To be a joke, it was too cruel;
But to be true, it was absurd ...
My mind seemed to have got the fuel
It needed to become alert.

Tatyana K. Varenko

#26. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Helen Keller

#27. Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final.

Corinne Michaels

#28. I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

Malik Bendjelloul

#29. Only three types of people tell the truth: Kids, the drunk, and the angry.

Elizabeth Reyes

#30. The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

J. William Fulbright