#harsh

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?' ↗

— Tertullian

#earning #harsh #i #live #living

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#appear #bad #certainty #conviction #harsh

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#among #classes #comfort #great #harsh

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#love

...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ... ↗

— John Geddes

#love-hurts #poetry #snowman #unyeilding-words #words

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. ↗

— Martin Bormann

#extremely #harsh #life #natural #perfectly

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#dealt #defeated #england #european #fate

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives. ↗

— Jorge Garcia

#daily #daily lives #harsh #harsh reality #human

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#earnest #excuse #harsh #heard #i

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#fighting #go #harsh #towards #you