Top 83 Quotes About Harshness
#1. But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.
Nuala O'Faolain
#2. Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..
Morgan MacDonnell
Teresa Medeiros
#3. In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, 'Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl'.
David Sedaris
#4. Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
Chinua Achebe
#5. The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
Julien Benda
#6. Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.
Louise Labe
#7. I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.
Franz Grillparzer
#8. Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.
Lorraine Heath
#9. But even in the wealth of spring, he remembered the harshness of this country. It is a cunning place, he thought, a place of dangers, after all.
John Ehle
#10. ...many people prefer the comfort of fantasy to the harshness of reality. They seem to reason this way: 'How can I arrange my beliefs so I'll feel most comfortable?' rather than arranging them to agree with reality.
Howard Kahane
#11. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Plato
#12. If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.
Eula Biss
#13. I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.
David Blunkett
#14. The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
Pema Chodron
#15. The calendrical harshness of nature is nothing to the boundless cruelty of history.
Joseph Roth
#16. Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.
Marcel Proust
#17. The world, which is sometimes too stern, compensates for its harshness with its inattention.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#18. God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.
T.K. Ware
#19. It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.
Hugh Blair
#20. His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Bruno Bauer
#21. His cheekbones also gave his face a harsh character; but there was no harshness in the eyes which, looking at the world from under their tawny eyebrows, gave the impression of a man ever alert to greet a redeeming instinct in others but often disappointed.
James Joyce
#22. It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Sloan Wilson
#23. Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
Wyndham Lewis
#24. Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.
Ihara Saikaku
#25. To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
Omar Khayyam
#26. Life is an extraordinary gift some people appear not to appreciate. In every breath and scent, every touch and sight we are gifted by new experience and the chance to feel the richness of experience. Every sound we hear, from the song of a bird to the harshness of an angry voice, is a miracle.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#27. Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.
Alexandre Dumas
#29. And greed will breed harshness and cruelty.
And wealth is a maze to confuse.
Once a person is warm and well-suppered,
how much of such wealth can they use?
Mitton Tony
#30. We don't need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever person even can feel it with a bottle of wine.
M.F. Moonzajer
#31. The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.
Adolf Hitler
#32. The loss, the harshness, the unpredictability of the Australian country. Can I deal with this? Maybe only with Aiden by my side. What would that life be like? The pleasure, the satisfaction, the love.
Stella Knights
#33. The fourth duty of a teacher is to dissuade his students from evil ways with care and caution, with sympathy and not with rebuke and harshness, because in that case it destroys the veil of awe and encourages disobedience.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#34. The boy River had grown into Styx the man and, despite his flaws and his harshness, he was all I wanted. All I had ever wanted.
Tillie Cole
#35. Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.
George Santayana
#36. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Sivananda
#37. Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
Indira Gandhi
#38. Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as an intrinsic part of who they are doesn't lessen the harshness and cruelty of that rejection.
Christina Engela
#39. Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.
Vahan Zanoyan
#40. How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
Christine De Pizan
#41. When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.
Nuala O'Faolain
#42. As I was saying...They train these girls to be like tiny ninjas. They have to earn special badges for the survival skills that they learn, kinda like how we teach the cadets. Now to balance out all the weapons training and harshness of wilderness survival, they also teach them to bake cookies.
Alanea Alder
#43. The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.
Henry Bonilla
#44. Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
Omar N. Bradley
#45. But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann, he seemed to be exhibiting at once an utter contempt for his person and the most tender regard for his hat.
Marcel Proust
#46. Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
Mahmoud Darwish
#47. Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.
Patty Griffin
#48. Intolerance, discourtesy and harshness ... are taboo in all good society and are surely contrary to the spirit of democracy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#50. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.
Robert Jordan
#51. And in that moment, I was hit with the realization that this delicate layer of atmosphere is all that protects every living thing on Earth from perishing in the harshness of space.
Ron Garan
#52. She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile
Margaret Mitchell
#53. The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is Earth is perfect for its purpose. It is ignorance of that purpose which makes it appear imperfect.
Kolbrin BIble
#54. Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.
Cardinal Richelieu
#55. I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.
Alice Meynell
#56. The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
Cesare Pavese
#57. when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .
Peter Kreeft
#59. Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
Coco Chanel
#60. The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and temperament of those who teach them to us. The former, by their natural sweetness, show us the quality of God's mercy; the latter, by their harshness, show us God's justice.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#61. He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
Seneca The Younger
#62. The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.
Philip Zaleski
#63. Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
Simon Cowell
#64. I want to lose all harshness of jagged nerves, to be above all gentle. I feel we have achieved victory for that almost more than anything-to be able to cultivate gentleness.
George Malory to his wife Ruth at the end of the Great War
Wade Davis
#65. It's the beauty that helps us return from the harshness. If it wasn't there, we would have nothing to live for.
Scarlett Dawn
#66. My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand. And yet, without a harshness which was foreign to his nature, it was impossible to refuse to listen to the story of the young and beautiful woman
Arthur Conan Doyle
#67. What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
George Eliot
#68. The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
Ben Okri
#69. Being near him was like being in a cloud, making my vision blur and taking away some of reality's harshness with its mist.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#71. I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see transformation happen right before your very eyes.
Suze Orman
#72. I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.
Michel De Montaigne
#73. Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.
Pietro Metastasio
#74. I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.
Elena Ferrante
#75. I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.
Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do."
"The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice.
Iain Banks
#76. People who suffered through tragedy and wanted to escape from the harshness of reality would create entire worlds more actual to them than the real one.
Stacey Marie Brown
#77. If you're an educator, caregiver, or parent, and you find yourself unable to contain your anger with kids, please consider getting professional help. Excessive harshness, whether it's emotional or physical in nature, can cause lasting harm to children.
Laura L. Smith
#78. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Plato
#80. The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.
Evan Meekins
#81. I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#82. When you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...
John Geddes
#83. Don't be so harsh on yourself because of your bad decisions you've made in the past and don't let them hinder your life progress. Try to forgive yourself and accept it as a learning curve for you and thank God you have managed to turn things .around.
Euginia Herlihy
