These merciless quotes will inspire you. Merciless, having or showing no mercy or pity.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging merciless quotes, merciless sayings, and merciless proverbs.
Best Merciless Quotes
- “Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.” ~ Nikola Tesla
- “Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.” ~ Magnus Carlsen
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“Cold water is merciless, but righteous.” ~ Wim Hof
- “Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
- “Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.” ~ Roger Waters
- “The best vocalists I can think of are female. There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she’s merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness – even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.” ~ Hozier
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“I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.” ~ Ricky Gervais
- “If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.” ~ Bob Greene
- “In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.” ~ Michael Korda
- “By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.” ~ John Woolman
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“Kunstler Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.” ~ Wim Hof
- “History is merciless. History doesn’t care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It’s up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!” ~ James Howard
- “Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.” ~ James Balog
- “Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“Nature is so merciless – but so righteous.” ~ Wim Hof
- “There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she’s merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness – even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.” ~ Hozier
- “My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
- “The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don’t believe what you’re saying, it hears it. If you don’t believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn’t the conviction there.” ~ Riz Ahmed
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“France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.” ~ Francois Hollande
- “I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I’d never met the person who did it, and she cut it into some kind of dreadful mullet. It looked like a triangle on my head. The other kids were merciless.” ~ Jonathan Stroud
- “There is a page in ‘Diary of a Worm’ in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.” ~ Doreen Cronin
- “For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt.” ~ Dan Rather
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“I’m my own most merciless critic onstage.” ~ Keith Jarrett
- “While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.” ~ Paul Ryan
- ”Lost’ fans were fantastic fans. I’ve said this before, but they were rabid, and they questioned everything – they were merciless, but I loved them for that.” ~ Henry Ian Cusick
- I never feel more alone than when I’m traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.” ~ Philip Schultz
- “I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.” ~ Julien Baker