Harsh Quotes

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Life is not easy. Life is very harsh. We have to be strong. Otherwise, life will destroy us.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.

I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

No country. is as harsh as the world.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.

If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.