Top 100 So Cruel Quotes
#1. I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?
Richelle Mead
#2. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
Tupac Shakur
#3. He's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel.
Shannon A. Thompson
#4. 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
#5. I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
Haruki Murakami
#6. You guys put them all on a boat and sent them over here to North America a couple of hundred years ago." "The English maybe would do such a thing. Is what they did with the criminals, so maybe they would send you the smelly cats. But no the Italians. We would no be so cruel.
Lynsay Sands
#7. Why did you leave me, Elle? Why did you sneak away from me in the middle of the night while I was asleep like you were ashamed of me and what we'd done?" He kept his voice controlled, but I could hear the edge in it. "Why were you so cruel?
Nicole Williams
#8. It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
Tammy Baldwin
#9. Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.
Voltaire
#10. According to some Christian teachings, Jesus and God ascended above the sun, the moon and the stars leaving us to be slaughtered by Satan, and then told us to come and seek them, where it would never be possible for any human to reach. What kind of a God would be so cruel to His children?
Nicky Verster
#11. If our current barbaric world spirals into greater corruption and brutality, our descendants may become so cruel and so morally perverse that they cross time to watch us suffer, bearing orgasmic witness to the bloodbaths from which their sick civilization grew.
Dean Koontz
#12. This affliction
hope
is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
Patricia McCormick
#13. My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?
C.S. Lewis
#14. No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other
Ammianus Marcellinus
#15. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
Donna Lynn Hope
#16. You know, I never believed in fate until I met you... then I started thinking coincidence didn't have near so cruel a sense of humor
Alwyn Hamilton
#17. There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.
Lee Penn
#18. As pastor and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, "Nothing is so cruel as the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a brother back from the path of sin."[2] Those
Ken Sande
#19. But you go through with it, continue to fight, because you hope one day it won't be like this. Life can be so cruel. It doles out just enough hope to keep you going, like a small cup of water and one slice of bread to someone on the verge of starvation.
Marisha Pessl
#20. How can he be so cruel to me at times - and then like this? she thought. And again her awakening perceptions gave her the answer. He would hurt her himself, take pleasure in doing so, but he would not allow her to be injured by anyone or anything else
Anya Seton
#21. I say, if you hate cruelty, remember that nothing is so cruel in its consequences as the toleration of heresy!
George Bernard Shaw
#22. If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
Ann Coulter
#23. We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#24. Surely there is nothing so ungracious, nor nothing so cruel, but men will hold therewith, if it be once approved by custom.
Desiderius Erasmus
#25. People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#27. Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your lap. Because life could also be so sweet.
Wendy Higgins
#28. How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable
all at the same time?
James Clavell
#29. Because how could I rest, when the world is so cruel and hard, and yet might be so sweet.
Sarah Walters
#30. Men, in general, are so treacherous, so envious, and so cruel that it is a comfort to find one who is only weak.
Nancy Mitford
#31. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
Ernest Hemingway,
#32. The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'
Joel Salatin
#33. To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
Dante Alighieri
#34. To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
Susan B. Anthony
#35. There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer
#36. People can really change. When they're far away from each other, their hearts will change. It's so cruel that the only thing I can do is wait. - Mouri Ran
Gosho Aoyama
#37. Bounds should be set
To ingenuity for being so cruel
In bringing change unheralded on the unready.
Robert Frost
#39. She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly
Ernest Hemingway,
#40. How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?
Lian Hearn
#41. To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
Dante Alighieri
#43. If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.
Lois Leveen
#44. I thought ... it was easy when I thought it was something to do with the flesh. But what I'm seeing is more than that. It's love, and love isn't a sin. So how can God be so cruel as to give that feeling to two men or two women if it's a sin? I've always believed God to be compassionate. Loving.
Joey W. Hill
#45. Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still hear now, does not record it. Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.
William Trevor
#46. Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?
J.C. Reed
#47. I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
Edmund White
#48. Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.
("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume")
Chris Bell
#49. God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.
Elton John
#51. So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...
Deyth Banger
#52. What a nickname. Teenagers can be so cruel. I'm embarrassed to be one of them.
Colleen Hoover
#53. How could God be so cruel as to create a Muslim woman with so much flesh and so little sex appeal?
Azar Nafisi
#54. Who would be so cruel?"
"You ask this question after the Shoah? After countless instances of genocide? Human beings can be incredibly cruel.
Sylvain Reynard
#55. I remember looking at the fear in her eyes. How could someone be so cruel? I thought as the hens cried. When will people realize, that other animals have just as much the right as we do.
Zoe Rosenberg
#56. While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.
Hassan Blasim
#57. Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
William Ralph Inge
#58. Please, never say: 'Who does it hurt? Why not a little freedom? I can transgress now and repent later.' Please don't be so foolish and so cruel. You cannot with impunity 'crucify Christ afresh.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#59. Momiji Sohma: Are you sure? Shigure said it hurt really bad.
Hatori Sohma: Yes, well, I did that on purpose.
Shigure Sohma: Oh, Ha'ri, you're killing me! Why would you be so cruel?
Hatori Sohma: It seemed to be the only way to shut you up at the time.
Natsuki Takaya
#60. How could you ever have loved a man so cruel?'
Trusia lifted her chin at that, and regarded me intensely; her voice held a trace of indignance, and I understood that the depth of her love for my father transcended all else. 'You speak as though I had a choice,' she said.
Jeanne Kalogridis
#61. I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.
Peter Ustinov
#62. I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things,
Lady G
#63. I had my heart set on you,
but nothing else hurts like you do,
who knew that love was so cruel?
And I've waited and waited so long,
for someone who'll never come home.
It's my fault to think you'd be true,
I'm just a fool ...
Christina Aguilera
#64. Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way.
Tegan Quin
#66. We are so hard on ourselves, it is unbelievable sometimes. The things we say to ourselves or think about when we look in the mirror are so cruel. We have to look at the power we do have and use it to overcome that voice of insecurity.
Erin Willett
#68. Children can be so cruel,' the Doctor said. 'Children's writers can be even worse.
Puffin
#69. People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. Life is so long, and too hard, and then it ends so cruel and sudden!
Margo Lanagan
#71. The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#72. I'm so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you've been-what's the word?-oh yes: 'fired.'
Bette Midler
#73. People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#74. How can God be so cruel to grow love in such hopeless places?
Fiona Paul
#75. If only women were not so fickle and men were not so cruel.
Jayne Castel
#76. A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.
Stephen King
#77. So all of this agony was for nothing?"
"You exposed us to malicious gossip for nothing."
"You were cruel."
"So were you."
"You hurt me."
"And you hurt me. Is revenge everything you dreamed it might be?
Sylvain Reynard
#78. Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.
Jerry Bridges
#79. 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
#80. He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#81. He coughs. Not a good sound. Too deep, too full of coffins.
Why is mankind so fucking cruel?
Why?
Sally Gardner
#82. 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
#83. I am so sorry for you, Leslie.' She said it like she really meant it. But not like she was completely surprised. 'And for him. Because he's lost you now.' This last part undid me. Despite her cruel criticism of me over the years, from where she sat, I was anyone and everyone's prize.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
#84. War is a big word; it's cruel, it's hard, nobody wants that. Protecting yourself sounds much better. Putting up walls, shutting everyone out. And forgetting that those who you are so afraid of - they're not all that different from you.
C.M. Rayne
#85. We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.
David Richo
#86. My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
Sarah Lancashire
#87. 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
#88. His eyes widen. I have bound us, and he knows it. He is so beautiful, so warm and cruel and distant that I think, without the connection, I might just run away.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#89. When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.
Mike Judge
#90. You began it," declared Dorothy. "Well, you ended it, so we won't argue the matter. May we come out again? Or are you still cruel and slappy?
L. Frank Baum
#91. Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -
That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.
The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),
The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Alexander Pope
#92. If you go up there Old Georgie'll freeze you an' dig out your soul with a cruel'n'crookit spoony an' eat it so you'll never even be reborned an' your body'll be turned into a frostbited boulder.
David Mitchell
#93. Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.
Don King
#94. To be cut down to size is good for all of us, but particularly so for those who forget how transient are our cultures and institutions, how pointless and cruel our divisions, how vain our claims to special status for our practices and beliefs above those of others.
Alexander McCall Smith
#95. Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win ...
Marie Rutkoski
#96. No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.
Andrew Marvell
#97. Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
Stephen Fry
#98. When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place ... but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!
Naoyuki Ochiai
#99. Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
Hanya Yanagihara
#100. It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
Hiromu Arakawa
