crueler QUOTES

1 " No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. "

― Patrick Rothfuss

2 " Strange how it is that men never act crueler 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. "

― Marcel Theroux , Far North

3 " There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing a crucial part of one's humanity, to exist in a colder, crueler world than before. "

― John Connolly , The Burning Soul (Charlie Parker, #10)

4 " No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection. "

― Patrick Rothfuss , The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)

5 " I can’t help but imagine what that would be like—to be all alone on this island with eternity taunting me with loneliness. To say goodbye to the last human you will ever see—there is no crueler hand of fate. "

― Jennifer Arnett , Day One: A Novella

6 " Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw. "

― Robert Kurson , Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

7 " This level reach of blue is not my sea;
Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,
Whose quiet ripples meet obediently
A marked and measured line, one after one.
This is no sea of mine. that humbly laves
Untroubled sands, spread glittering and warm.
I have a need of wilder, crueler waves;
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

So let a love beat over me again,
Loosing its million desperate breakers wide;
Sudden and terrible to rise and wane;
Roaring the heavens apart; a reckless tide
That casts upon the heart, as it recedes,
Splinters and spars and dripping, salty weeds. "

― Dorothy Parker , The Portable Dorothy Parker

8 " There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor. "

― Richelle Mead , Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2)

9 " educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they’d be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression. "

― Po Bronson , NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

10 " Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones. "

― Gaston Bachelard , The Poetics of Space

11 " The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly. "

― Caroline Kepnes , You (You, #1)

12 " War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. "