#cruel

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else. ↗

— Delta Burke

#cruel #else #everything #fun #humor

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised. ↗

— William Adams

#countries #cruel #death #failed #god

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds. ↗

— Elspeth Huxley

#country #cruel #grinds #heart #into

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#human #human nature #least #nature #one thing

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#because #being #bill #bill clinton #chance

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#avarice #cruelty #fluid #founded #lends

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#child #comes #cruel #father #hope

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #dreams

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#evil #good-intentions #hurt #looking-back #self-centered

We are faithful as long as we love, but you demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man? ↗

— Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

#hurt #love #man #pain #venus