cruel

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy.

People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.

He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

In a cruel world kindness is certainly an unsafe virtue

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

Open the doors of your heart and they will come_And for every cruel arrow,Sweet caresses of delirium alsoTo nourish your soul.

Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.

Nothing is ever certain.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

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.

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.

I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a people live a life that was strange in many ways, but also much the same as anywhere else.""Then why are they so cruel?" There was an earnestness to the girl's face, an honest desire to know. "Cruelty is in all of us," he said. "But they made it a virtue.

They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can't help ... just the sort of person I can't help falling in love with."...As I sailed into the lake I realized the Fates really were cruel. They sent Calypso someone she couldn't help but love. But it worked both ways. For the rest of my life I would be thinking about her. She would always be my biggest what if.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

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.