Top 100 Life Cruel Quotes
#1. They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment.
Louis L'Amour
#2. Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later
Christie Golden
#3. 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
#4. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad
Fred Gipson
#5. Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
Rosa Luxemburg
#6. So, we, at this day, when we thought we should have found favor among our own countrymen, for that we preached unto them the gospel of peace, life, and eternal salvation; instead of favor, we have found bitter and cruel hatred.
Martin Luther
#7. I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
Ben Carson
#8. It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
William Penn
#9. Life is a cruel teacher. It punishes you first, and then gives you the lesson.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#10. Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.
Christopher Morley
#11. 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
#12. A fool is a man who believes glory can be found at the tip of a sword instead of on the tip of his tongue. That is life's cruel trick.
Natalia Jaster
#13. We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden the circle of our compassion, life can be less cruel.
Gary Kowalski
#14. There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer
#15. In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.
Robert Jordan
#16. Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.
Haruki Murakami
#18. Life has a cruel way of making us confront the things we dread.
Pragat Kasana
#20. It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.
Stephen King
#21. People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
August Strindberg
#22. The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. If you can't be liked being kind, then be hated being cruel.
Joshua Teya
#24. I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.
Dorothy Parker
#25. The world was a merciless place. Hard and cruel. Except when you found someone to trust and love. Life, however fleeting, possessed meaning then.
Sophie Jordan
#26. Into this life of cruel wonder sent,
Without a word to tell us what it meant,
Sent back again without a reason why -
Birth, life, and death - 'twas all astonishment.
Richard Le Gallienne
#28. By this age, there is almost everything you need in your life, but it isn't free, you must fight to snatch it from the cruel powerful hands that withhold it from you.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#29. Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#30. It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.
David Spade
#31. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line.
Stephenie Meyer
#32. Life is so long, and too hard, and then it ends so cruel and sudden!
Margo Lanagan
#33. Byron's Prometheus becomes symbolic of the human condition in both his mixed divinity and his drive to suffer through the toils of life in a grand effort towards a progressive evolution, whereby the cruel fate of humanity might someday be overcome.
George Gordon Byron
#34. There are worse things in life to be than fat, and one of them is ignorant. Another is prejudiced. Another is deliberately cruel.
Laura Wiess
#35. His life had been ripped away from him without his being able to fight against it. That was difficult enough, but to know that the one woman that consumed his thoughts day and night, the one woman who captured his attention with a mere smile would never be his ...
It was beyond cruel.
Donna Grant
#36. The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.
Pentti Linkola
#37. Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you learn how much you need your Heavenly Father and how much your friends need you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. your ego is nothing but a mean and cruel deceptive little freak living inside your head that will never bring joy and happiness to your life. What that ego will bring is frustration, depression, manipulation, and fear.
Tony Horton
#39. Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew ... and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?
Davy Jones
#40. I'll find a day to massacre them all
And raze their faction and their family,
The cruel father and his traitorous sons,
To whom I sued for my dear son's life,
And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
William Shakespeare
#41. The love we seek overrules human nature. It has a wildness in it and a glory that we want more than life itself. Love never counts the cost, to itself or others, and nothing is as cruel as love. There is no love that does not pierce the hands and feet.
Jeanette Winterson
#42. Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.
John N. Gray
#44. Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.
John Updike
#45. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?
Soseki Natsume
#46. If you don't want to take risk, life would be cruel to you.
Sunday Adelaja
#47. Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
#49. In the country one sees only nature's fair works, and one's soul is not saddened by the cruel struggle for mere existence that goes on in the crowded city.
Helen Keller
#50. For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#51. Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. He was not going to move on until she let go of him, of her guilt. And that was one thing she could not do. If she lost that, she would lose the thread that had sewn her new life together. She would become that careless, cruel person she had been before.
Sarah Addison Allen
#53. Religion is a drug, and to take drugs is degrading,' he said. 'You must learn to look life in the face. Throw away your cowardly drugs, and see the truth, the ugly, cruel, ungodly truth, as it really is.
Anna Kavan
#54. Bitter the day of birth, for death is its companion. Yet, though life be cold and cruel, we are not without a last consolation. For to die in one world is to be born into another. Let all men hear and remember!
Stephen R. Lawhead
#55. Military life is hard, even cruel - especially for the kids.
Tucker Elliot
#56. I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings.
David Sedaris
#58. We never love a person after judging them because that's not love then, But today's life lesson is to judge a person before falling in love with that person, It's hard to trust anyone in this cruel world where all are determined to hurt you by any mean.
Debolina Bhawal
#59. Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final.
Corinne Michaels
#60. 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
#61. Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
Rita Mae Brown
#62. Suddenly, someone who was at the center of your life is gone, excised as quickly as an apple is cored, a sharp spike driven down the center of your world, then a cruel flick of the wrist and the almost surgical extraction of your very heart.
Lisa Scottoline
#63. The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Albert Schweitzer
#64. Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
Tony Dorsett
#65. Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
Barbara Pym
#66. You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.
Wayne Dyer
#67. A careless word may kindle strife,
A cruel word may wreck a life;
A timely word may lessen stress,
A loving word may heal and bless.
Anonymous
#68. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#69. And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
William Goldman
#70. The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.
Nina George
#71. Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
#72. Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
John Rawls
#73. [...] I was created by cruel men. Not in a lab, not in a test tube, but through years of undeserved mistreatment at a time in life that's supposed to be magical. Early adulthood. Newfound freedom, newfound love.
Steph Sweeney
#74. How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.
Pierce Brown
#75. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
Stephen King
#76. Was not merely weak but also evil to throw away your life when so many had their lives or the promise of their future taken from them by cruel people or by the brutal forces of nature.
Dean Koontz
#77. Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
Sarah Kane
#78. It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.
Sharon Salzberg
#79. What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.
Piers Anthony
#80. But now I think he was trying to teach me to never feel entitled because life can be a cruel bitch at times.
S.A. Tawks
#81. Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.
Donna Tartt
#82. Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
Horace
#83. the implied Shakespeare is thoroughly engaged with life, and he does not conceal his judgment on the selfish, the foolish, and the cruel.
Wayne C. Booth
#84. 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
#85. And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.
Grant Morrison
#86. Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus
Rohinton Mistry
#87. If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.
Ann Brashares
#88. Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon
Joyce Meyer
#91. If to be truthful is to be cruel, then lying must surely be an act of kindness. And so, kindness is a lie.
Wataru Watari
#92. Looking back, I realize it was the first time I experienced how cruel life can be. How swiftly a simple act can change in.
Sue Whiting
#93. Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.
Camron Wright
#94. Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Nancy Mitford
#95. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
Darren Shan
#96. 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.
Kent Nerburn
#97. Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.
Jamsetji Tata
#98. I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.
Jonathan Evison
#99. That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.
Cassandra Clare
#100. Life offers a cruel choice: you can be right or happy. Not both. This is true regardless of whom you may be involved with, but it is especially true if there is an emotional vampire in your life.
Albert J. Bernstein
