Aftermath of World War I

Famous quotes containing the words aftermath of, aftermath, world and/or war:

    “The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The Germans are always too late. They are late, like music, which is always the last of the arts to express a world condition,—when that world condition is already in its final stages. They are abstract and mystical.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “No more shall the war cry sever,
    Or the winding rivers be red:
    They banish our anger forever
    When they laurel the graves of our dead!
    Under the sod and the dew,
    Waiting the Judgment Day:—
    Love and tears for the Blue;
    Tears and love for the Gray.”
    —Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907)