Top 100 Quotes About Cruelest
#1. 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
#2. The cruelest thing you can do to
someone is force them to hurt alone
Chris Colfer
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
Sarah Vowell
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Whore! someone cried out. A woman's voice. Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.
George R R Martin
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
Henry Ward Beecher
#14. Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.
PureDragonWolf
#15. 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
#17. But then, maybe "I don't believe in you" is the cruelest way to kill a monster.
Helen Oyeyemi
#18. 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
#19. Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.
Robert Black
#20. The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
Irving Howe
#21. Life was a bitch of the cruelest type, but she could be sweet even when she wanted to. "Dis
Leo Sullivan
#22. If he peered into her liquid brown eyes, he might've found the cruelest corners of the world there.
Pam Godwin
#23. February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.
Judy Nedry
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
Anacreon
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Time is the cruelest force of all.
Cixin Liu
#31. One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Douglas Coupland
#32. Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.
Joan Slonczewski
#33. I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
John Steinbeck
#34. You might be the cruelest person I've ever met," he said in a conversational tone.
"What?" I gasped.
"My first wife killed herself. Took me centuries to get over it and love again, yet you weren't going to mention that you might be compelled to slay yourself in front of me.
Jeaniene Frost
#35. Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.
Gary Chapman
#36. The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.
Jo Coudert
#37. Hope could be a wonderful thing. But hope could crush you anew every single day. Hope could be the cruelest thing in the world.
Harlan Coben
#38. The cruelest aspect of love ... is its inviolable integrity.
Rick Yancey
#39. The cruelest countries have the most laws.
Marty Rubin
#40. Any chance we can bypass the cruelest method of death and settle this over a game of cards?
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#41. In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.
Glenn Cunningham
#42. The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
Jackson Pearce
#43. The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.
James V. Schall
#44. All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?
C.S. Friedman
#45. What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
Bela Karolyi
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
Lord Byron
#49. 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
#50. Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
George R R Martin
#51. He knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.
Tess Gerritsen
#53. 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
#54. Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.
Richard Paul Evans
#55. Laughing at someone's dream was one of the cruelest things a person can do to another.
Chris Colfer
#56. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play,
Veronica Roth
#57. 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
#59. To fall in love with someone who does not love you back, is the cruelest, most unforgiving heartache I have ever experienced.
KB
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. The cruelest curse of the disease is also its most sacred promise: You will not feel this way forever.
Terri Cheney
#63. Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The
Megan Marshall
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
Yahtzee Croshaw
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
Tori Amos
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.
Piri Thomas
#74. Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
Ella T. Grasso
#75. 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
#76. [ ... ] 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Because believing you're not alone is the cruelest trick of all.
Morgan Matson
#84. We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves." "Ty
Cassandra Clare
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Failing to differentiate among employees - and holding on to bottom-tier performers - is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
Jack Welch
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. 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
#95. The cruelest lies are often told without a word
The kindest truths are often spoken, never heard
Ben Folds
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. 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
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