Top 100 Quotes About Cruel Love
#1. love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love
Rupi Kaur
#2. Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final.
Corinne Michaels
#3. What do violent individuals fear most? Violence? I should say not! By what do the cruel and selfish feel most threatened? All of them fear nothing as much as they fear love.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#4. Obligation
They cannot ask for kindness
Or for mercy plead,
Yet cruel is our blindness
Which does not see their need,
World-over, town or city,
God trusts us with this task:
To give our love and pity
To those who cannot ask.
Edgar A. Guest
#5. The cruel-hearted love upon the wind and dash feelings until none are left.
Joel T. McGrath
#6. 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
#7. Sweet words. Gentle deceptive balm. Help, love, to belong together, to come back again - words, sweet words. Nothing but words. How many words existed for this simple, wild, cruel attraction of two bodies! What a rainbow of imagination, lies, sentiment, and self-deception enclosed it!
Erich Maria Remarque
#8. 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
#10. He was evil. Cruel, capricious, and dangerous as a cobra. A prince of darkness.
Completely evil, and completely in love with her.
L.J.Smith
#11. A woman's love is strange and cruel and nearly always clear-sighted, love that sees is always horrible love, and she knew walking away was right and so she walked, dismissing the cries as only another part of the boy's development, like smiles from gas or scraped knees.
Stephen King
#12. In truth, if I admitted to the world that I believe God made me as I am, the church would excommunicate me, but I know this to be true. I am not an evil man - nor greedy, nor cruel to those in need. Yet the law would have me hang for love, the purest of human emotions.
H.C. Brown
#13. Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
Eric Hoffer
#15. While nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.
J. E. Buckrose
#16. Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.
Jacqueline Carey
#17. If you aren't willing
to love her,
do not put dents
on her heart
that will influence
her to believe that
she is hard to love.
That is cruel.
Pierre Alex Jeanty
#18. I'm absolutely sure that the cruel truth without love is a lie.
Nikita Mikhalkov
#19. My heart is not brave or big. It is not cruel either. It is not strong at all. I keep it within this iron cage for a reason. Breathe on it wrong and I will die ... Just go now. I would rather let you see my face, than my heart.'
Laertes, Count of Samothrace
Rebecca Ashe
#20. I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#21. 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
#22. It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily, and you so little. But know this; the ones that love us never really leave us. And you can always find them in here
J.K. Rowling
#23. You think you want love, Mary. You think it is this beautiful gift that does nothing but fill you and make you whole. But you are wrong. Love can be cruel and ugly. It can become dark and cause the deepest pain.
Carrie Ryan
#24. When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it's cruel and wrong and we all know this.
Dave Eggers
#25. I would rather be kind and lose everything than cruel and gain many things.
Debasish Mridha
#26. There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.
Rick Bass
#27. Love is cruel as the grave.
Ouida
#28. Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
George R R Martin
#29. Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
Anton Chekhov
#30. 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
#31. So casually cruel in the name of being honest
Taylor Swift
#32. We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin ...
Aimee Semple McPherson
#33. If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.
James Baldwin
#34. I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
Lori Foster
#35. Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.
Terry Pratchett
#36. You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
George Bernard Shaw
#37. I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.
Antony Armstrong-Jones
#38. Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you.
Alex Turner
#39. I photograph you every morning
In a cruel attempt to capture
A formal souvenir of what I love
Susan Rich
#40. Another step, my sisters,
My brothers,
My love.
The way is long, but we have each other.
Another mile,
Another tomorrow,
The path is cruel, but we are strong.
Mary E. Pearson
#41. Love was the balm that tried to cure everything, the shutters in front of one's eyes, keeping out the harsh, cruel face of the world.
Anonymous
#42. 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
#43. I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.
Elizabeth Taylor
#44. What a cruel thing war is ... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
Robert E.Lee
#45. I was taught to follow the light, but the light got me lost,
I was taught to see the light, but the light blinded my sight.
It was the light who gave me judgment, and the judge was cruel and sick,
I was taught to love the light, but darkness woke me up, and I was free.
Quetzal
#46. Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where you have to be. (Vadim)
Aleksandr Voinov
#48. If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
Paul Valery
#49. I don't know what's wrong with this world, but I do know what's right with it: Love. I have studied enough history to see that no matter how cruel the behavior of tyrants and no matter how dark the moments have been, Love has always prevailed. Always.
Steve Maraboli
#50. Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
Patrick Rothfuss
#51. What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Robert E.Lee
#52. 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
#53. Indeed, love is beautiful, yet at the same time, it is a cruel punishment, starker than death.
Khaddam Ahmed Khan
#54. It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
Kenneth Branagh
#55. Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay
#56. I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?
Rosamund Hodge
#57. The world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!
Myrtle Reed
#58. What about those Promises of yours to never leave me? she asked, stammering too much this time. His cruel smirk was as gut-wrenching as his words - Promises are meant to be broken, sweetheart.
Khadija Rupa
#59. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#60. And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn't make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time.
Brock Clarke
#61. Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?
Jacqueline Carey
#62. We are faithful as long as we love, but you
demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of
herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there
woman or man?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#63. I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel.
Andrew Porter
#64. Dear Teenage Self,
That guy you're crazy about,
Will ask you out
On a date
In about ten years, so don't fret
You'll get there yet.
But fate is cruel
On that day,
That feeling will have gone away.
Joyce Rachelle
#65. 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
#67. Perhaps for him there's a way to love that's sane and happy, that isn't cruel.
Rosamund Hodge
#68. Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals.
G.K. Chesterton
#69. I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.
Henry Rollins
#70. What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.
Brian K. Vaughan
#71. 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
#72. [...] 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
#73. But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on?
Lisa Klein
#74. Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb..
Solomon
#75. I think British humour is very cruel, and gay humour is very cruel. I think the two go hand-in-hand and that's why they mix so well in England. I think that's why you get so many gay comedians in England that are accepted so well because British humour is very cruel. I love it.
Jason Sellards
#76. We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard Cohen
#77. Her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason ...
W. Somerset Maugham
#78. With every additional moment, I fell deeper and harder for Matt Quinn. How dare he make me love him? It was almost cruel.
Belle Aurora
#79. For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
Neil Gaiman
#80. Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
Constantin Stanislavski
#81. How can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this?
D.S. Wrights
#82. The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed.
Nikki Rowe
#83. Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.
Constantin Stanislavski
#84. You think that all a cruel-looking man needs is the love of a good woman and then he won't be cruel any more. But he stays cruel and you eat your heart out.
Marian Keyes
#86. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
Donna Lynn Hope
#87. Fate was cruel to play this trick on her, although if she were honest she knew she only had herself to blame. She had taken the chance and now she had to pay the price.
Emily Arden
#88. Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked
Laurell K. Hamilton
#89. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
Anacreon
#90. No one ever stepped forward to protect me, Inspector. I wonder why I should feel any driving sense of duty to protect anyone else. Let me tell you something about love. It can be very cruel and very greedy. I've had done with it. And that has given me a freedom that I cherish.
Charles Todd
#91. You liked watching Lucrezia and her consort," Roark observed, ignoring his comment and switching the subject, taking Nix's earlobe between his white teeth and nipping it, hard. He licked at the blood. "The cruel face of their love. It turned you on. Hard.
Jae T. Jaggart
#92. That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.
Cassandra Clare
#93. How people are often merciless
on those they love the most
Maggie Nelson
#94. Was it cruel if someone asked for it? Begged for it, even? She always begged. Even now, I could hear her whimpering for me. Christ, those noises she made. A one-way ticket to heaven.
A. Zavarelli
#95. Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.
Tullian Tchividjian
#96. There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action - righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn't think we'd ever find.
Pepper Winters
#97. 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
#98. The Maoris are a strong race both physically and mentally. Revengeful and cruel to their enemies, they were passionate in love and ever fearless in war.
Kate McCosh Clark
#99. There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?
Frederick Lenz
#100. You married a borderline psychotic who conquered the brutal circumstances he grew up in by being even more brutal. Add turning into a vampire and centuries of undead power struggles, and you have the crazy cruel bastard you fell in love with.
Jeaniene Frost
