Top 44 Hope Is Cruel Quotes
#1. Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
Harlan Coben
#2. Hope is misleading, hope is cruel, but hope is all we have.
Meredith Black
#6. The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet ...
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
#7. Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. Humans. Altogether a contradictory and deeply flawed species. And yet ... And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy. Perhaps the only hope.
Katherine Applegate
#8. If living is to end in pain, incompleteness, and nothingness, it seems a cruel and futile experience for beings who are born to reason, hope, create, and love.
Alan W. Watts
#9. The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.
Michel Faber
#10. We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.
Aml Ameen
#11. The thing I didn't see back then is that people can be destroyed by goodness. Damage can be done by hope. If people aren't ready for hope, it's a cruel trick to put it on their doorstep.
Barbara Hall
#12. Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.
Nicholas Sparks
#14. The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#15. No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.
Rachel Field
#16. Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.
Lucy Grealy
#17. I hope you end up caring about Bree as much as I do, though that's kind of a cruel wish. You know this: it doesn't end well for her. But at least you will know the whole story. And that no perspective is every really trivial.
Stephenie Meyer
#18. 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
#19. Hope was cruel. It could be an act of torture far more profound than despair.
Michelle Sagara
#20. Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.
Alison McGhee
#21. A story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's spirits, for example, with a fun scene ... Before writing a scene of pure despair, we must go through scenes of hope. And indeed, when I write, all of this amuses me very much.
Ryukishi07
#22. The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
Novak Djokovic
#23. Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare.
Hugh Howey
#24. [O Ruler of Olympus, why did it please thee to add more care to worried mortals by letting them learn of future slaughters by means of cruel omens! Whatever thou hast in store, do it unexpectedly; let the minds of men be blind to their future fate: let him who fears, still cling to hope!]
Michel De Montaigne
#26. but the stories on the edge of civilization are horrible things. They're as cruel and violent as the nastiest fairy tales, but they don't have any hope or happily-ever-afters. They have victims, not heroes. The best you get is to escape and go home.
Richard Roberts
#27. How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.
Pierce Brown
#28. The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#29. I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
Haruki Murakami
#30. It's cruel to give hope where none should be. It only turns into disappointment, resentment, rage -- all the things that make this life more difficult than it already is.
Victoria Aveyard
#32. I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.
Stefanie Schneider
#33. This affliction
hope
is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
Patricia McCormick
#34. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
Donna Lynn Hope
#35. A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
Jake Roberts
#36. I would rather be kind and lose everything than cruel and gain many things.
Debasish Mridha
#37. What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?
Storm Jameson
#38. But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won't be like this. Life can be so cruel. It doles out just enough hope to keep you going, like a small cup of water and one slice of bread to someone on the verge of starvation.
Marisha Pessl
#39. No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
Ed Koch
#40. Fear is a cruel master, but hope die a hard death.
Lalita Tademy
#42. Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#43. Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.
Alice Hoffman
#44. It's more cruel to give someone false hope than telling the bitter truth
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