Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?
'Wuthering Heights' is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!'
I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?
Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!
I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.
All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.
She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.
She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.
Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.
Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.
I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.
I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller.
