Top 100 Quotes About Merciless

#1. Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers

Anne Rice

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#2. Will you dance with me?" The charms on Sahara's bracelet clinked against one another as she lifted her arms to link them around his neck, her love for him proud and open.
Deep inside, even the part of him that was the void, merciless and dark and broken, knew happiness, knew joy.

Nalini Singh

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#3. Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.

Robin Hobb

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#4. Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

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#5. The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

Janet Morris

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#6. I will treat you with my knife the way you've treated my pages with your merciless eyes. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.

Clive Barker

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#7. But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking others, he turns on himself in order to inflict merciless tortures.

Emil Cioran

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#8. Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Bertrand Russell

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#9. In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.

Alexis Hall

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#10. I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

Keith Jarrett

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#11. He couldn't change the fact of what he was, nor would he be able to shield Amelia from all the arrows that would be aimed at the wife of a gypsy. But he would be damned if he would let her make her way through a merciless world without him.

Lisa Kleypas

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#12. I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#13. Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture.

Seth D.

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#14. The Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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#15. When Taft gives way to his (anger), one reporter observed, it is to inflict a merciless thrashing upon its victim, for whom thereafter he has no use whatsoever. With Roosevelt is a case of powder and spark; there is a vivid flash and a deafening roar, but when the smoke is blown away, it is the end.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#16. Merciless Mart, with its grand lobby. I glimpse the Abnegation

Veronica Roth

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#17. Later, when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.

James S.A. Corey

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#18. The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

Eric Hoffer

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#19. She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn't know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief.

Lisa Kleypas

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#20. Don't let him push you around. You got this," he said. "You get on the bull, and you ride until he sees who the master is. Relentless. Unforgiving. Merciless. You know the drill. The only place the broken past has in our present, is the place we give it. So, don't give it, and don't let him give it.

Lucian Bane

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#21. The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

Samael Aun Weor

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#22. The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate.

Keith Donohue

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#23. The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal.

Stieg Larsson

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#24. If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

Bob Greene

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#25. I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

Meg Cabot

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#26. Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Maxim Gorky

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#27. My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

Mike Tyson

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#28. Enlightenment, if left unclouded by pathetic fancy, leads to a very special and bracing sort of nihilism - positivist, rationalist ... merciless.

David Bentley Hart

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#29. He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

Aldous Huxley

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#30. Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

Nina George

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#31. The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

Russell Kirk

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#32. Putting my book down should be the hardest thing my reader has to do that day. Authorship is a merciless business!

Rachel Aaron

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#33. How people are often merciless
on those they love the most

Maggie Nelson

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#34. Why would I seek to break your heart?"
"Because you can be a merciless bastard at times," I answered honestly.
A smile flitted across his lips. "True, but I want you with me.

Jeaniene Frost

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#35. Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

Al Gore

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#36. Things that were merciless and cruel always captivated me. The conversations my classmates enjoyed and the warm words I exchanged with my family never really resonated with me. They were just static, like a radio that wasn't tuned properly.

Otsuichi

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#37. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Bertrand Russell

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#38. On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

Emanuel Lasker

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#39. Puberty is merciless.

Becky Albertalli

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#40. No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

John Mortimer

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#41. I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

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#42. Destiny. My destiny! Droll thing life is
that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose.

Joseph Conrad

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#43. But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

James Baldwin

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#44. History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.

David Grann

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#45. When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#46. Your customers are the judge, jury, and executioner of your value proposition. They will be merciless if you don't find fit!

Alexander Osterwalder

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#47. Ah me! what torture to have to deal with virtue, cold and merciless as the letter of the law!

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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#48. And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds - a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...

E. M. Forster

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#49. Groop I implore thee," continued the merciless Vogon, "my foonting turlingdromes.

Douglas Adams

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#50. France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

Francois Hollande

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#51. Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#52. They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you realize you never stood a chance.

Emily Thorne

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#53. Speak well of the sun, but know that it can harm you;
when enraged, it is pitiless. Speak well of the ocean, but know that it can injure you; when angry, it is merciless. Speak well of the wind, but know that it can wound you; when provoked, it is ruthless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#54. Cancer was a merciless executioner. It stripped away dignity and autonomy, leaving only pain and horror in its wake.

Catie Rhodes

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#55. Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Horace

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#56. Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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#57. You know what I think? I think you've picked up the Nazi idea that Jews can't create. That they can only imitate and sell. Middlemen.' He fixed his merciless scrutiny on Frink.

'Maybe so,' Frink said.

Philip K. Dick

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#58. This beast was not a man, not a lesser faerie. He was one of the High Fae, one of their ruling nobility: beautiful, lethal, and merciless.

Sarah J. Maas

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#59. Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

Indro Montanelli

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#60. Yesterday. Was there a more merciless word?

Cornelia Funke

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#61. Cold, still and merciless
Death comes visiting
With absolute finality
(Page 24)

Neena Verma

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#62. Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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#63. Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.

Kellie Elmore

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#64. Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.

Doug Scott

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#65. 'Lost' fans were fantastic fans. I've said this before, but they were rabid, and they questioned everything - they were merciless, but I loved them for that.

Henry Ian Cusick

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#66. Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

Paul Bowles

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#67. It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#68. 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

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#69. You always hear these stories of how Hollywood is so merciless on composers and how they all get beaten up. Nobody beats me up as much as I beat myself up. This is what I love doing and I have one life to do it in, and I better do it right. I better do it well.

Hans Zimmer

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#70. God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.

Alexander Pushkin

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#71. Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.

Kim Addonizio

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#72. For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

Dan Rather

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#73. A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.

L.M. Montgomery

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#74. How Heavy the Days ...
How heavy the days are.
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everything bare,
Everything cold and merciless,
And even the beloved, clear
Stars look desolately down,
Since I learned in my heart that
Love can die.

Hermann Hesse

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#75. Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Roger Waters

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#76. Droll thing life is
that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself
that comes too late
a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Joseph Conrad

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#77. Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

Magnus Carlsen

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#78. My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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#79. Schoolchildren are merciless people: separately they're God's angels, but together, especially

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#80. Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Mariama Ba

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#81. All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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#82. Later," Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to be merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die." Holden

James S.A. Corey

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#83. Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Joyce Carol Oates

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#84. Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned.

Germaine Greer

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#85. Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Thomas Browne

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#86. Reductionism is merciless.

Douglas Hofstadter

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#87. I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

Horace Greeley

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#88. Old habits 'DIE' hard, they have to be 'KILLED'!
Yes...for once I would propogate some violence in dealing with habits that do not serve us...'Cold blooded murder of non serving habits' , 'merciless elimination of non serving habits'.. Substitute with newer,more powerful habits !!!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

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#89. And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

David James Duncan

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#90. I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me
I actually took my teachers seriously!

Sinclair Lewis

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#91. It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Seamus Heaney

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#92. Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker ... " A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room ...

Jeaniene Frost

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#93. Of all the races in Africa there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest, the somalis" Gerald Hanley Irish Writter and soldier in Brittish Army.

Gerald Hanley

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#94. If I am loved," Father Damien went on, "it is a merciless and exacting love against which I have no defense. If I am not loved, then I am being pitilessly manipulated by a force I cannot withstand, either, and so it is all the same. I must do what I must do. Go in peace.

Louise Erdrich

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#95. Blessed be the merciless, for they shall see God's enormous shrug.

George Garrett

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#96. Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Nikola Tesla

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#97. Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Winston Churchill

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#98. Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

James Balog

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#99. [Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.

Ali Smith

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#100. Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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