Cruel

Famous quotes containing the word cruel:

    It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.
    Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)

    ...they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.
    Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 6:9.

    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)