Cruel

Famous quotes containing the word cruel:

    The Kid had a lurking devil in him ... It was a good-humored, jovial imp, or a cruel and blood-thirsty fiend, as circumstances prompted. He always laughed when killing, but fire seemed to dart from his eyes.
    State of New Mexico, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    She’s taen out her little pen-knife,
    Fine flowers in the valley,
    And twinned the sweet babe o’ its life,
    And the green leaves they grow rarely.
    —Unknown. The Cruel Mother (l. 9–12)

    Life—that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life—that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak—and not only about us. Life—that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?—And yet old Moses said: “Thou shalt not kill.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)