Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story. Boys and girls fall in love, that is, they are driven mad and go blind and deaf and see each other not as human animals with comic noses and bandy legs and voices like frogs, but as angels so full of shining goodness that like hollow turnips with candles put into them, they seem miracles of beauty. And the next minute the candles shoot out sparks and burn their eyes. And they seem to each other like devils, full of spite and cruelty. And they will drive each other mad unless they have grown some imagination. Even enough to laugh.
Joyce CaryTag: imagination love boys girls laughter beauty madness angels cruelty spite devils gulley-jimson the-old-old-story
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
Nalini SinghTag: love people life-lessons cruelty knowledge-wisdom living-life reason-emotion
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
Shannon L. AlderTag: friendship pain love acceptance family sorrow child hurt adversity cruelty illness endings support trials caring rejection mom tough-times dad breakups mental-disorders best-friend spouse dumped misunderstood-fights support-system true-friendship
There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.
Shannon L. AlderTag: fear self-esteem confidence faith jealousy self-worth judgement hurt cruelty move-on insecurity rumors blessed god-s-love name-calling rejected let-go ignored blown-off cruel-people gossiped-about hang-on low-self-esteem mean-people
Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.
Henryk SienkiewiczTag: humanity hope cruelty hope-and-despair
...the years have taught me not to wonder too much at the dark things men do. Strange how it is that men never act crueller than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do. And I'm not going to give them the power now. But it was a cruel thing that they did, and when they had finished hurting me, a splinter of loneliness seemed to break off and stay inside me forever.
Marcel TherouxTag: men hurt cruelty ideology
Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,
Though you are the sister of the river willows,
I will kill you with my singing,
Without spilling your blood on the ground.
Not touching you with my hand,
Not giving you one glance, I will stop loving you,
But with your unimaginable groans
I will finally slake my thirst.
From her, who wandered the earth before me,
Crueler than ice, more fiery than flame,
From her, who still exists in the ether—
From her you will set me free.
Tag: unrequited-love cruelty
Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtlich behaupten darf, wer gegen Thiere grausam ist, könne kein guter Mensch seyn.
Arthur SchopenhauerPerhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oscar WildeWe are cruel enough without meaning to be.
John UpdikeTag: cruelty 1981 rabbit-angstrom
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