Quotes About Cruel Life

#1. Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

Matthew Inman

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.

Pierce Brown

#5. A journalist marries the news, Seymour. She's capricious, cruel, and jealous. She demands you follow her to wherever on Earth life is cheapest, where she'll stay a day or two, then jet off. You, your safety, your family are nothing,

David Mitchell

#6. [...] 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

#7. Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

Per Petterson

#8. 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

#9. You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

Stephen King

#10. Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it.

John Knight

#11. Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.

Roxana Shirazi

#12. It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

Shashi Deshpande

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.

Clare Mulley

#16. 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

#17. They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment.

Louis L'Amour

#18. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Here you are ... A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of ... And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you ... Or perhaps life has been cruel.
"I don't know sir" I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.

Arthur Golden

#25. 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

#26. And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

Melina Marchetta

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Corinne Michaels

#30. 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

#31. Hope could be a cruel bitch

Julia London

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

David Sedaris

#33. Military life is hard, even cruel - especially for the kids.

Tucker Elliot

#34. 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

#35. As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

Bill Courtney

#36. 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

#37. Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

Barbara Pym

#38. I was often forced to whip him, which some men do not mind doing and which in fact some enjoy doing, but which I did not like to do; and afterward he, Tub, believes me cruel and thought to himself, Sad life, sad life.

Patrick DeWitt

#39. Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only-
then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy

Leo Tolstoy

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. Sometimes life can be as cruel as to end as a word break up

Jai Prakash

#43. That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

Cassandra Clare

#44. I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.

Jonathan Evison

#45. Life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.

Ruskin Bond

#46. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

Kate Morton

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.

Nancy Mitford

#51. Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

Camron Wright

#52. I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

Cesar Millan

#53. 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

#54. Fateful encounters with a cruel world reveal our character. No human is immune from heartbreaking loss. Regardless of our socioeconomic status, eventually everybody shall suffer a grievous personal loss, a body blow that inflicts pain of inexpressible magnitude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#55. Children - their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must - that life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans for a tomorrow that will never be.

Andrew Levkoff

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity.

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

Mary S. Lovell

#59. I would rather be kind and lose everything than cruel and gain many things.

Debasish Mridha

#60. fate has a cruel sense of humor

Christopher Paolini

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.

Ann Brashares

#65. Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Stephen Fry

#66. Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Rohinton Mistry

#67. Was it as Ada suggested, that we can choose our own endings, joy over sorrow? Or does the cruel world just give and take, give and take, while we flounder through the wilderness?

Eowyn Ivey

#68. Life - life - how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.

Aimee Dostoyevsky

#69. 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

#70. Life was like that when you were fifteen and knobby-kneed and you only had a handful of choices. Your world was small and cruel and narrow-minded and breathtaking.

Colleen Curran

#71. Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

Jose Saramago

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

Horace

#75. If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Terry Pratchett

#76. 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

#77. What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?

Sandra Chami Kassis

#78. 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

#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. Yet I questioned not why destiny does play a cruel melody at times for I knew that each note had a purpose within the symphony of life.

Raneem Kayyali

#81. 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

#82. It is much easier to be kind than cruel.

Debasish Mridha

#83. It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world.

Woody Allen

#84. There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts ... memories can't be enough.

Eiry Nieves

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. If you can't be liked being kind, then be hated being cruel.

Joshua Teya

#90. 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

#91. Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your lap. Because life could also be so sweet.

Wendy Higgins

#92. And Heyst, the son, read:
Of the stratagems of life the most cruel is the consolation of love - the most subtle, too; for the desire is the bed of dreams.

Joseph Conrad

#93. It's about life, and how cruel it can sometimes be.
How unfair life is.
All of us have a hand in it.
We do what we have to do, take what we have to take, and sometimes we hurt people we swear we won't hurt, but we do, because life makes us.

J.M. Darhower

#94. 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

#95. It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Stephen King

#96. ...I'm ANGRY. I know life is hard, I think EVERYONE knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to BITE?
Why are there no second choices?

Stephen King

#97. Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins ...

Ouida

#98. Risk is part of the game.

Victoria Aveyard

#99. Life mash, Lucia has said, when Eva told her Christopher had gone to war. Eva had asked her what it meant, and Lucia explained it was a patois expression, meaning everything was messed up and broken. Mean life was cruel.

Susan Lanigan

#100. Life has a cruel way of making us confront the things we dread.

Pragat Kasana