#cruel

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We speak of love when we destroy nature. It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance.


Toba Beta


#destruction-of-nature #innocence #speak-of-love #love

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


#don-t-be-so-cruel-to-me #don-t-promise-me-anything #dont-be-so-cruel #i-need-love #i-ve-got-everything-that-i-need

I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either.


Jeaniene Frost


#humor #leila #vlad-tepesh #forgiveness

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.


Joseph O'Connor


#freedom #injustice #love #freedom

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


Eliza Cook


#echoes #heart #how #memory #old

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.


William Dunbar


#despair #emotional #full #ironic #mirth

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.


George Santayana


#free #loved #makes #those #truth

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.


George Saunders


#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.


Anna Sewell


#doctrine #guilt #make #nothing #ourselves

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.


George Bernard Shaw


#cruelty #delicious #find #hurt #only