Cruel Quotes

“He says you’re cruel.”
“I’m pragmatic. If I were cruel, I’d give him a eulogy instead of a conversation.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“An end to questions or an end to life, she said to herself as she raced towards the unknown.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.”
― Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War

“You can never heal completely. The scars will always stay behind, just to remind how cruel the time was once to you. But someday, you will learn to see beauty in the world that gave you these scars. And your eyes will shine with no lies in it. That day, you become beautiful. With baring all the scars, Which you always tried to hide from everyone.”
― Akshay Vasu

“People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders & The Fisher of Men

“Smile and the world will laugh at you.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Vampires are cruel." Steopa said. "we exist to weed out the weak and the unneeded. We feed on humans.”
― Mari Miniatt

“Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“There is no one so cruel as those closest to you.”
― Andrew Davenport

“As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!”
― Bill Courtney, Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

“Some animals would be offended if they were treated like some people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.”
― Anthony Liccione

“To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.”
― Leinad Eibam, Published Poet

“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To be cruel is to be coward.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone.”
― Brandon Taylor, Real Life

“Never be cruel to anyone; no one deserves it.”
― Debasish Mridha

“He told me once it was cruel to give hope where none should be.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“Some days I wish we weren't so distant, life wasn't so cruel and the weather in my heart wasn't so gloomy.”
― Nitya Prakash

“between the disfigurement and the muzzle, it's nearly impossible to catch what she's saying. Always, though, while tripping and stumbling to the music, she looks out into her audience and tells the story about her mother. Most people laugh and yell for her to lift her skirts, but every so often she'll spot someone weeping and swear they can understand her every word.”
― David Sedaris, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

“You mustn’t be cruel, if you want others to be kind to you.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“If a man is cruel, he destroy himself.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“And I am so alone
And I am alone here
With the idea of ghosts
And the idea of humanity, which is a cruel idea”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“No matter how weak they may seem, the innocent have the power to defeat even the most cruel hearts!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Whoever survived cruel situations, finds the strength of obedient faith.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Nachiketa was the commander of the Rongcha army, and the king’s son-in-law. He was so cruel that he had no reason to be ugly, and he was so ugly that he had no reason to be cruel.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila