A Quote by Storm Jameson

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

Storm Jameson

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Storm Jameson
English - Writer
January 8, 1891 - September 30, 1986

In California, you want to have the strangest thing, be doing the strangest thing. People admire that.

Ken Hakuta

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

Mark Ruffalo

Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?

Patricia Rozema

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.

George Orwell

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either.

Marilynne Robinson

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Zora Neale Hurston

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Matthew Scully

That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.

Lauren Oliver

Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars.

Novalis

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

Pippa Evans

The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

Antonin Artaud

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.