Harsh Quotes

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William Faulkner
“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”
William Faulkner

Erik Pevernagie
“Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. ( “Love lying fallow “)”
Erik Pevernagie

Lian Hearn
“I am not made for despair”
lian hearn

J.K. Rowling
“There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You are harsh on others and yourself to the degree that you don’t know how important you are.”
Meir Ezra

“There's no crying in the rank book.”
William Morton

Adrienne Young
“I didn't belong on the land or on the docks or the cities that lay across the Narrows, The place I belonged was gone”
Adrienne Young, Fable

Amal El-Mohtar
“Red knows her own weaknesses as well as anyone. She presses too hard, breaks what she would embrace, tears what she would touch to her teeth.”
Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

Khayri R.R. Woulfe
“If the truth brings chaos, then let there be chaos.”
Khayri R.R. Woulfe

Iris Murdoch
“Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful.”
Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

Tamuna Tsertsvadze
“Once you grow, you'll understand that this twisted world doesn't run so smoothly. In order to beat the injustice, one must either apply the harshest methods sometimes or get squashed under the boots of the strong forces. It is the wild law of the world, unfortunately.”
Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Gift of the Fox

“Thank God who delivered us from harsh labour.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Michael D. O'Brien
“So far beyond rational thought is your attitude, that nothing I can say will change it. A lifetime of reasoning with you would not alter your amazing inability to comprehend reality.”
Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World

“Having happy and beautiful memories won't always bring you salvation. The more beautiful a memory is, the more painful it can become. It can even become terrifying. Both for the one who's leaving...and for the one left behind.”
Isla

Chuck Palahniuk
“After you find a bigger task to dread, the little chores will be a breeze. Here’s
another reason to have a devil on hand. It does make all the little demons more...
bearable ".”
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“As long as you have hope, you can survive any harsh condition.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

Ryan Galloway
“It was true—but it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie.”
Ryan Galloway, Biome

“Many investment managers believe that the secret to riches is to implement an extremely complex ML algorithm. They are setting themselves up for a disappointment. If it was as easy as coding a state-of-the-art classifier, most people in Silicon Valley would be billionaires.”
Marcos Lopez de Prado, Advances in Financial Machine Learning

“Let the eyes see, let the heart take notice.
Be not harsh in your power, lest trouble befall you.
Pass over a matter, it becomes two.
He who eats tastes; one addressed answers.
It is the sleeper who sees the dream;
and a judge who deserves punishment is a model for the (evil) doer.”
Miriam Lichtheim

Deeksha Arora
“The harsh world makes you forget what you were born for”
Deeksha Arora

“Never Overly Harsh
Never Overtly Hostile”
Kshanasurya

Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“The hegemony imposes rules and regulation, the corrupted rule is that when imposing harshly on some people and ignoring others.”
Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“A 2014 study found positive results following eight weeks of mindfulness training with a group of US marines exposed to stressful training exercises.16 The program was designed to develop concentration and a greater acceptance and tolerance of physical pain, distressing thoughts, intense emotions, and harsh environmental conditions.”
Noel Brick, Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything

Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“Reacting to someone’s harsh words is like playing with the chewing-gum thrown by someone.”
Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, 10 GOLDEN Steps of Life

Sarah J. Maas
“The words from months ago that Nesta had tried so hard to forget swarmed from the darkest pit of her memory, each one stinging. You have become a pathetic waste of life.”
Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

Rebecca Yarros
“You're not going to make it. Best accept it now and not take up more of my time.”
Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

Micheliny Verunschk
“Se Deus é grande, o mato é maior.”
Micheliny Verunschk, Caminhando com os Mortos

H.C.  Roberts
“Clarity could sometimes be a harsh creature.”
H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

Chuck Palahniuk
“The only thing I know is everything you love will die, the first time you meet that
someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground ".”
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“[The archbishop’s court] sentenced him to the loss of his prebend and all other revenues for two years, with the profits to be distributed to the poor at the king’s discretion, to a public whipping in the presence of the judge he had insulted, and possibly to one or two years’ banishment. Henry [II] was outraged by the leniency.”
Frank Barlow, Thomas Becket

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