For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.
The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.
An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?
Terror made me cruel.
Conventions are often more cruel than the law.
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.
All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.
I began my day as I often begin my days, by checking Donald Trump's Twitter feed to see how far the crazy has spread. And today, I really think he's off his meds, because today he went from crazy to cruel.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.
You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.