Top 100 Quotes About Cruelest
#1. The cruelest thing you can do to
someone is force them to hurt alone
Chris Colfer
#2. I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.
Nella Larsen
#3. I am a philosopher in the natural sciences. Matters of the heart I leave to the poets, but it has occurred to me, as a failed poet myself, that the cruelest aspect of love is its inviolable integrity. We do not choose to love - or I should say, we cannot choose not to love. Do you understand?
Rick Yancey
#4. The cruelest form of torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of torture one can inflict on any other species is to lock them up with a kender.
Margaret Weis
#5. Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Douglas Coupland
#6. It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.
Danielle Steel
#7. But you raised a ruckus about and threatened to perform a Julius Caesarian on anybody on anybody who calls April the cruelest month- I was Damn born out of the loins of my father in the spring of April, you claimed. Surgeon, you stood up for the month of buds and bitches like a true Kuon Kunos
Aporva Kala
#8. Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.
Nenia Campbell
#9. That can be the cruelest part of happiness--its tendency to disguise itself in boredom."
- Marie-Helene Bertino, Safe as Houses, title story
Marie-Helene Bertino
#10. Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
Susan Estrich
#11. Dauntless is the cruelest of the five
They tear each other to pieces ...
Erudite is the coldest of the five
Knowledge is a costly thing ...
Veronica Roth
#12. It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.
Kenny Smith
#13. Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
William J. Brennan Jr.
#14. Hope can be the cruelest thing. But it was all she had.
Robert Dunbar
#15. April is the cruelest month - - - - mixing memory and desire - - -
T. S. Eliot
#17. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
Lisa See
#18. Hope - cruelest of the evils that escaped Pandora's box - smiled on him gently all that summer.
Mary Doria Russell
#19. The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
Edmund Wilson
#20. We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
Dwight Schultz
#22. Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
S.C. Stephens
#23. It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser.
Marisha Pessl
#24. Beware young brides: The cruelest behaviors on earth are done in the name of, what some call, 'love.' Therefore, the Shulamite does a much better job at defining love than pop-culture.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#25. The cruelest lies are often told without a word
The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
Ben Folds
#26. We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God.
Danielle Steel
#27. The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D.H. Lawrence
#28. February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
Douglas Brinkley
#29. The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.
Robert Ludlum
#30. Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our brains can be our worst enemy, our cruelest opponent.
Buket Uzuner
#32. Failing to differentiate among employees - and holding on to bottom-tier performers - is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
Jack Welch
#33. I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruelest monsters ever to stalk the earth. And all because they're Jews.
Anne Frank
#34. Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don't have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration.
John Green
#35. The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves
that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents as well.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves." "Ty
Cassandra Clare
#37. Because believing you're not alone is the cruelest trick of all.
Morgan Matson
#38. I remember wanting to laugh, but I held it in. I guess even then I thought laughing at someone's dream was one of the cruelest things one person could do to another.
Chris Colfer
#39. Passion now begins to wake
and whom we desire, we will take
then we'll cut them down to the quick
love itself the cruelest trick.
Moved we are by loves sweet song
though it plays not for long
we can blow on embers bright
till passion outtakes the light.
Nancy Holder
#40. There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.
Anna Quindlen
#41. War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#42. I'm a sadist at heart, and I have learned that one of the cruelest things you can do to someone is to teach them something, and thereby cause them to question their ignorance and long-held beliefs.
Peter Masters
#43. Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
Dave Van Ronk
#44. [ ... ] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.
Meg Cabot
#45. Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.
Rick Reilly
#46. Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
Ella T. Grasso
#47. The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.
Piri Thomas
#48. The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern
#49. Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Hedda Hopper
#51. Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
Tori Amos
#52. We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless ... ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants
PUBLIC OPINION.
H. P. Blavatsky
#53. Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.
Summer Glau
#54. The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
Yahtzee Croshaw
#55. The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.
Samuel Pisar
#56. The cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.
Orson Scott Card
#57. Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The
Megan Marshall
#58. The cruelest curse of the disease is also its most sacred promise: You will not feel this way forever.
Terri Cheney
#59. Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out
nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.
Buster Keaton
#60. To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced.
KB
#61. Though she would never admit it to polite Society, Lady Georgette Thorold hated brandy almost as much as she hated husbands. So it was the cruelest of jokes when she awoke with nary a clue to her surroundings, smelling like one and pressed up against the other.
Jennifer McQuiston
#62. It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.
Anna Godbersen
#63. But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. They do it without regard to rhyme or reason.
Mark Twain
#64. A Georgia volunteer, afterward a colonel in the Confederate service, said: "I fought through the civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."34
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#65. Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
Sarah Vowell
#67. Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic; highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man.
Adhish Mazumder
#68. The cruelest thing is love that leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what, in fact, we do not forgive each other.
Luigina Sgarro
#69. Anyone who lives in Boston knows that it's March that's the cruelest, holding out a few days of false hope and then gleefully hitting you with the shit.
Stephen King
#70. Whore! someone cried out. A woman's voice. Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.
George R R Martin
#71. The religion which treats its flock as a credulous plaything offers one of the cruelest spectacles that can be imagined: a human being in fear and doubt who is openly exploited to believe in the impossible
Christopher Hitchens
#72. When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.
Erik Erikson
#73. The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
Henry Ward Beecher
#74. Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.
PureDragonWolf
#75. I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.
Veronica Roth
#77. But then, maybe "I don't believe in you" is the cruelest way to kill a monster.
Helen Oyeyemi
#78. Some of the cruelest men in the world were born with silver tongues. They could charm a bird right out of the sky, only to break its wings. And no men, nice or cruel, offer favors lightly - not strangers. Not to young women. Not without expecting something back in return.
Nenia Campbell
#79. Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.
Robert Black
#80. The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
Irving Howe
#81. Life was a bitch of the cruelest type, but she could be sweet even when she wanted to. "Dis
Leo Sullivan
#82. If he peered into her liquid brown eyes, he might've found the cruelest corners of the world there.
Pam Godwin
#83. February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.
Judy Nedry
#84. The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.
Paul Hoffman
#85. India's head ached. Insomnia was still her most attentive, cruelest lover, demanding and possessing her selfishly whenever it chose to do so. Light-heartedness was beyond her today. A man of middling quality was trying to marry her, and there was something wrong with her father's voice on the phone.
Salman Rushdie
#86. The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
Anacreon
#88. It was the cruelest irony that the man I despised, the man who tortured me from the front of the classroom three days a week, was the hottest fucking thing I'd ever seen.
Chanel Cleeton
#89. One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
Mercedes McCambridge
#90. Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I wasn't a man.
Patricia Cornwell
#91. He blamed psychopaths for the brutal excesses of capitalism itself, that the system at its cruelest was a manifestation of a few people's anomalous amygdalae.
Jon Ronson
#92. Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a person can be righteous by keeping the law. If that were true, there would have been no need for the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ.
Paul David Tripp
#93. The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
Lord Byron
#94. April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot
#95. Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
George R R Martin
#96. He knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
Tess Gerritsen
#99. I'm an idiot. All I could do was hope that I wasn't already too late. Sometimes hope is the cruelest joke of all.
Seanan McGuire
#100. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play,
Veronica Roth
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